obiter dictum

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Noun
  • The analysis also found that West Palm Beach and Palm Beach together are home to 11,500 millionaires, 78 centimillionaires, and 10 billionaires.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Additional analysis showed that around 70 percent of these LRDs displayed evidence of gas swirling around 2 million miles per hour—solid indicators of accretion disks surrounding supermassive black holes.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 7 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Exemptions are better than abatements—Exemptions for a set period with specific set asides seem to create the most predictability for the developer.
    Roger Valdez, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Over the course of its nearly 30-year run, South Park has deployed toilet humor, ruthless political commentary, and profane asides to eviscerate wide swaths of people.
    Paula Mejía, The Atlantic, 31 July 2025
Noun
  • Also, my commentary is merely a layman’s viewpoint.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The original touched upon politics sometimes, but the social commentary was more cultural.
    Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 4 Aug. 2025
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“Obiter dictum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obiter%20dictum. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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