as in necessarily
because of necessity if we refuse to tolerate bigotry, do we become, ipso facto, as intolerant as those whom we condemn?

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Recent Examples of ipso facto This does not ipso facto lead to good governance for a business. Sharon Vosmek, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025 Once upon a time, being in a rock band meant, ipso facto, being in a cover band. Michaelangelo Matos, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2025 This implies a gradual increase in cost over the long-term, which would ipso facto raise prices. Michael Lynch, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024 Any persistent disparity between racial or social groups is taken as ipso facto proof of invidious discrimination. Charles Kesler, National Review, 20 June 2024 Since the operation was not vetoed, Adams must, ipso facto, have acquiesced. Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023 Legal: The gift of the check was revoked ipso facto by the death of Grandmother, the donor. Dallas News, 11 Dec. 2022
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Adverb
  • That’s going to remain; nobody’s going to necessarily change the standards or how to do it.
    Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • But Tennessee Williams didn’t say anything about remembrance of things past necessarily rendering people into cardboard and circumstance into stereotype.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Refocusing On Long-Term Results As the marketing pendulum inevitably swings from domination by spreadsheet-wielding geeks to marketing by creative brand-builders, companies will realize that they have been overly focused on short-term results.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The Second World War left Japan devastated, but the seven-year occupation that followed inevitably fostered exposure and, for some, a certain attraction to American culture.
    Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025

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“Ipso facto.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ipso%20facto. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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