obiter dictum

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Noun
  • According to a mid-May report from Kantar, a marketing data and analysis company, supermarket shopping among Latinos was down 11.3% in the first quarter of 2025, compared to the same time last year.
    Sara Braun, Fortune, 21 June 2025
  • Trump using National Guard for deportation work could go into 'uncharted territory' Some 4.2 million people, or nearly a third of the 13 million residents of greater Los Angeles, are foreign-born, according to a Migration Policy Institute analysis of U.S. Census data.
    Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • But its event this year seemed tighter than usual, with fewer of the athletes that regularly participate going off on verbal tangents or taking up time for humorous asides.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 13 May 2025
  • There were the laugh-free auditions, the under-the-breath asides, the sphinx-like questions to interviewees who had sat on the couch in his outer office at 30 Rock for hours, listening as assistants booked helicopters to the Hamptons.
    Susan Morrison, airmail.news, 22 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Federal Reserve Pressure Another key factor in the dollar's decline is Trump's unorthodox approach to monetary policy, openly questioning the Federal Reserve's decision-making through commentary and pressure that brings its independence into question.
    Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025
  • This commentary is written on behalf of Maryland’s 24 state’s attorneys.
    Ivan J. Bates, Baltimore Sun, 30 June 2025
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“Obiter dictum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obiter%20dictum. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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