ipse dixit

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Noun
  • Assuming the roster gets back to full health, the givens ahead of Pelle in the rotation would be Tyler Herro, Bam Adebayo, Kel’el Ware, Andrew Wiggins and, perhaps, Davion Mitchell.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2025
  • There are some givens in the B’s lineup, as long as there’s good health.
    Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 26 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Collateralization and Transparency Gaps Weaken Market Confidence The core premise of a stablecoin is its backing by real-world assets or a collateral base that matches its outstanding tokens.
    Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • The injunction request stated the premises were unfit for occupancy and owners did not have a valid city business license.
    Samantha Moilanen, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • However, outside of those groups, paying a dividend is a choice, not a presumption, and the decision is often made very strategically by the board of directors and management.
    Jenny Van Leeuwen Harrington, CNBC, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Protections For Cannabis Consumers State Question 837 also includes provisions that prohibit the presumption of intoxication based on the use of marijuana or the presence of THC metabolites in a person’s system.
    A.J. Herrington, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The Marquess of Queensberry rules for boxing, 12 dictum which (among other changes) separated fighters by weight class and mandated the use of padded gloves, were promulgated in 1867.
    Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The party that once embraced President Ronald Reagan’s campaign dictum that the government was the problem now enthusiastically embraces the government as a political weapon.
    STEVEN LEVITSKY, Foreign Affairs, 11 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Also called Euclid’s fifth postulate, this rule tells us the following: Suppose you’re given a line.
    Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 6 Dec. 2023
  • In the 1800s, Bertrand’s postulate showed that for any n>3, there is always a prime number between n and 2n.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
Noun
  • Compared with the fundamentalism of al-Qaida or Hamas, the doctrines of the Bolsheviks, the nationalism of the Nazis or the sun god worship of the Aztecs, Christianity does indeed seem not too bad.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Roth said employees at the charity would have to be expressing and inculcating religious doctrine, such as requiring participation in a prayer before a meal is served at a soup kitchen.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Even under the assumption Aaron Rodgers finally drops the charade and signs, the Steelers need to make some sort of effort to secure a young quarterback.
    Derrik Klassen, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Courts generally proceed on the assumption that government officials have acted properly.
    Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • There’s an old axiom in physics, which states that nature abhors a vacuum.
    Letters to the editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2025
  • There is a lot of axiomatics, which seems to be closer to the Greeks, but aren’t the axioms largely chosen at will?
    Simone Weil, Harper's Magazine, 2 July 2024
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“Ipse dixit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ipse%20dixit. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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