obiter dicta

plural of obiter dictum

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Noun
  • The five categories identified in this report came from detailed analyses of more than 100 psychological, physical and cognitive measures that people cannot yet replicate on their own.
    Faye Chiu, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Kaufmann conducted his analyses using six years of demographic data from the survey, FIRE confirmed to Fox News Digital.
    Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In his candid remarks on earnings calls, Karp doesn’t always follow advice for talking points.
    Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025
  • After wrapping up his remarks Wednesday, Ohtani tried something different.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Once again this year, fourth grade teachers around the county turned their classrooms into recording studios, and their students submitted outstanding stories, interviews and commentaries for NPR's Student Podcast Challenge.
    Jordan Owens, NPR, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Transcripts, grammars, vocabularies, dictionaries, glyph studies, botanical studies, commentaries, articles, editions of codices, correspondence, maps, charts, drawings, photographs, Maya Society materials, genealogies of Maya families, and Mayan glyphs on moveable type.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The text interview features additional notes and annotations from Husain and has been popular among Bloomberg subscribers.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Researchers constructed the WORKBank database, which, at the time of this writing, consists of 1,500 worker interviews and 52 AI expert annotations across 844 tasks.
    Wayne Liu, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • And that his personal feelings, as the commanding leader of this organization, could ever be separated from the Patriots’ business?
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 16 Oct. 2025
  • These are complicated thoughts and feelings.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2025
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