ipse dixit

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Noun
  • Yes, this son of Curlin is the class of the field, but in this game, there are no givens.
    Danny Brewer, Forbes.com, 16 July 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
  • The cult horror flick doesn't totally deliver on a great premise, but Malkovich is a hoot as a cross between Davids Bowie and Koresh.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 19 July 2025
  • The event premises were secured with orange fencing, and a main entrance was staffed by uniformed Vernon Hills police personnel.
    Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2025
Noun
  • The latter requires evidence, a burden of proof, and a presumption of innocence, while the former often conflates an accusation with a conviction.
    Lauryn Overhultz , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 14 July 2025
  • Yet acknowledging that Caillebotte painted men — overwhelmingly, repeatedly and with intimacy — is not presumption.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2025
Noun
  • The majority opinion in Pierce v. Society of Sisters of the Holy Name of Jesus and Mary included a now-famous dictum about parents’ rights to shape their children’s upbringing.
    Charles J. Russo, The Conversation, 5 June 2025
  • Ultimately, the old dictum still stands – Garbage in, garbage out.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • Now, tangible results have emerged in a field replete with postulates and presumptions.
    Jenna Ahart, Quanta Magazine, 2 July 2025
  • Also called Euclid’s fifth postulate, this rule tells us the following: Suppose you’re given a line.
    Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 6 Dec. 2023
Noun
  • In recent years, Brazil has become increasingly fragmented, amplified by a widespread subscription to hateful doctrines, culture wars, anti-intellectualism, disinformation on social media, apocalyptic messaging, doomsday conspiracy theories, and ethno-religious identity politics.
    Emi Eleode, Time, 14 July 2025
  • The burial of a pope must precede a conclave, according to church doctrine.
    Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • Finally, level 3 asset fair values must be calculated based on estimations and assumptions based on the latest available data on the measurement date.
    Tomas Milar, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
  • Its generality enabled Penrose to prove in three scant pages of math that, under his two assumptions, singularities will inevitably form.
    Charlie Wood, Wired News, 20 July 2025
Noun
  • To prove those true statements, mathematicians would have to add a new axiom.
    Gregory Barber, Quanta Magazine, 20 June 2025
  • In his first inaugural address in 1933, former President Franklin D. Roosevelt laid out a political axiom that would come to shrewdly diagnose America's thorny brand of insularity.
    Clare Morell, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 May 2025
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“Ipse dixit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ipse%20dixit. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.

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