obiter dictum

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for obiter dictum
Noun
  • This assignment is part research, part cultural analysis, and part reflective storytelling.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Because it is privately funded and receives no federal money, the project is exempt from many exhaustive governmental vetting and environmental analysis requirements.
    Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • No one is better built than Leavy, a crafty veteran sportswriter, for between-innings repartee, wry asides, and tossed-off ideas for improving her beloved sport—and maybe even keeping its ever-looming obsolescence at bay for another decade or three.
    Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
  • To enhance the verisimilitude of his wraparound segment, Cheel augments the fictional story of alien-contact footage discovered at a yard sale with nonfiction asides about UFO culture.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Altitude Sports broadcast team includes play-by-play mainstay Chris Marlowe and his color commentary partner Scott Hastings, as well as reporter/analysts Christopher Dempsey and Katy Winge.
    Jenny Catlin, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Editors want expert commentary on trends, challenges and solutions — not a sales pitch.
    Cynthia Salarizadeh, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2025
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