ipse dixits

plural of ipse dixit

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Noun
  • The police set off to raid the premises.
    Mick Krever, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Ensure your home is securely locked when vacating the premises.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • But those presumptions are lazy attempts to understand how a prominent figure in the Bay Area community takes responsibility for leading his company.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Even the Boston Police Department had already issued a press statement, written by still another shady cop from Canton, declaring Karen Read guilty as charged – no presumptions of innocence in Norfolk County.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The best leaders question assumptions, reimagine progress and always keep humanity at their core.
    Kelly Jones, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
  • But in many cases, assumptions can lead us astray.
    Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • In other words, as Cleveland tore through the league last season, the players responded to most of the milestones reached with a collective shrug and worn axioms about nothing mattering until the playoffs.
    Joe Vardon, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The hope of deriving one set of rules, or axioms, to govern all mathematical truths was fatally undermined.
    Theodore McDarrah, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Everything bops breezily along, stopping occasionally to have Dek growl maxims about strength through domination, and observe a decapitation or two.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Visitors who travel down a dirt road to The Hollow — named for the hollow-core concrete that made Mellor wealthy — can enter the compound through a dark, cavernous passage lined with neon signs illuminating maxims from the likes of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and Flynn.
    Arthur Allen, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Bell might also question those billionaires and pose hypotheticals to gauge their reactions.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The narrative too often focuses on headlines and hypotheticals, rather than on structure, incentives, and outcomes.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And a lot of the pseudepigrapha, like the fake gospels and fake apocalypses, fill in gaps in the record that can serve latter-day, post-biblical purposes.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The documentary will explore how the letters and the gospels of the New Testament were written, preserved, and passed down as the most influential book in history.
    Leia Mendoza, Variety, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Courts, for their part, developed legal doctrines that require them to presume the President’s good faith in deferring to him.
    Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
  • To operate effectively, coalition forces need joint doctrines, training cycles, and logistics systems.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2025
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“Ipse dixits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ipse%20dixits. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.

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