obiter dicta

plural of obiter dictum

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Noun
  • These analyses ruled out explanations like recency bias, where animals simply favor the most recent signal, or responding to the most obvious cue.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The American Cancer Society recommends that adults aged 45 and up get regular colon cancer screenings, either stool analyses or colonoscopies.
    Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In his opening remarks to the forum, Xi called for unity and cooperation between the grouping of 21 economies on both sides of the Pacific.
    Helen Regan, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The Jimmy Kimmel Live star made the remarks while hosting Selena Gomez’s Rare Impact Fund Benefit.
    Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 31 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
  • Notes, document annotations, scribbles and works of doodle art can be made using the latest Pen3 input, which has been designed to look like a regular pen.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2025
  • If your annotations don't appear after saving, choose Print → Save as PDF to permanently embed them.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • If they were considered unimportant to the team’s chances of success, Zidane and Ancelotti did not worry too much if their feelings got hurt.
    Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Since posting on Reddit, hundreds of people have commented their thoughts and feelings on the situation.
    Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025
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