ipse dixits

Definition of ipse dixitsnext
plural of ipse dixit

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Noun
  • Ensure your home is securely locked when vacating the premises.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Two fire exits from the premises were sufficient for 100 customers in the upper part of the bar and another 100 in the basement section, Féraud said.
    Joseph Ataman, CNN Money, 6 Jan. 2026
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
  • As the video spread, viewers flooded the comments with advice, concern and assumptions about her daily life.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 8 Jan. 2026
  • After collaborating with Sotheby’s on a 2024 installation of Impressionism, for which they were tasked with subverting assumptions of the movement, the duo are now conceiving the company’s new restaurant, Marcel, named after the architect.
    Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 8 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • His preference would be to find simpler axioms for quantum mechanics — intuitive principles that would let theorists re-derive the theory in a new form altogether.
    Daniel Garisto, Quanta Magazine, 7 Nov. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • The rest of the book is spent expanding on these maxims one by one, in her colloquial, easy style, with references to classic psychological studies, her own research and her own experiences.
    Lamorna Ash, The Dial, 25 Nov. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • The Library of Congress has discussed these hypotheticals, but notes neither the 12th nor the 22nd Amendment clearly addresses such scenarios.
    Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Dec. 2025
  • His forthcoming book outlines a series of extreme hypotheticals, including succession scenarios triggered by national emergencies.
    Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 18 Dec. 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
  • The Fed chair’s grounding in history liberated him from rigid doctrines and encouraged innovative policymaking.
    John T. Shaw, Twin Cities, 5 Nov. 2025
  • 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
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“Ipse dixits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ipse%20dixits. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.

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