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obiter dicta

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plural of obiter dictum

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Levee sponsors are responsible for hiring a professional engineer to conduct the analyses needed to certify that the levee meets the minimum requirements.

— Kaleigh Yost, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2026
The analyses pointed to malnutrition as a common cause of death, followed by blunt force trauma consistent with being struck by boats.

— Ainslie Cruickshank, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2026

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Mittelman also recorded some 200 brief commentaries on especially significant productions.

— Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026
Additionally, several legal and policy commentaries stress that the absence of direct consumer refunds reflects statutory and administrative constraints rather than a deliberate effort to deny households relief.

— Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026

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This novel comes to readers in the form of a poem—one written by a fictional poet and accompanied by annotations from the poet’s (also fictional) colleague.

— Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2026
The form toolkit supports creating interactive forms or completing existing ones with text, checkboxes, shapes, and annotations.

— StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of annotations

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Even on a good day, Michigan is not a program that inspires many warm and fuzzy feelings among casual fans of college football.

— Austin Meek, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
At this point in time, Taylor is theoretically engaged to Doug, everyone’s least favorite of Taylor’s top-three men and whom even Taylor seems to have lukewarm feelings about now that they are no longer trapped in the same house.

— Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2026

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