ipse dixit

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Noun
  • Private cloud is also where organizations can focus on delivering AI and what’s next, knowing that security, governance and compliance are givens rather than points of concern.
    Patrick Moorhead, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Assuming the roster gets back to full health, the givens ahead of Pelle in the rotation would be Tyler Herro, Bam Adebayo, Kel’el Ware, Andrew Wiggins and, perhaps, Davion Mitchell.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Security was increased at the site and the individual was blocked from returning to TwitchCon premises and banned from future events, the statement said.
    City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Branch disagreed with the premise.
    Seth Emerson, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • At the same time, every individual is entitled to the presumption of innocence unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.
    Christina Hall, Freep.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The damage is less to the defendant than to old-fashioned notions about the presumption of innocence and the imperative of preserving an impartial and independent Department of Justice.
    Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But today the dictum applies to Israel, as well.
    RICHARD HAASS, Foreign Affairs, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Not that Wolfe’s dictum was totally off the mark.
    David McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The reason, the authors of a new study postulate, has to do with light pollution.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Now, tangible results have emerged in a field replete with postulates and presumptions.
    Jenna Ahart, Quanta Magazine, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • So those would be classic reliance interests in the terms of the law, in terms of legal doctrine.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The doctrine instructs that an erroneous fact in a story is not, by itself, sufficient for a defamation claim.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 14 Oct. 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
  • Amazon isn't the only tech company that appears to make assumptions about AI's effects on code.
    NPR, NPR, 21 Oct. 2025
  • That assumption collapsed along with Larsen B in the early 2000s, and scientists soon came to a consensus that ice loss was well underway.
    Evan Howell, Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2025
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“Ipse dixit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ipse%20dixit. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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