ipse dixit

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Noun
  • There are some givens in the B’s lineup, as long as there’s good health.
    Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 26 Sep. 2024
  • About the only givens seemingly would be Bam Adebayo making first-team All-Defense for the first time, after second-team such nods the past four seasons, and Jaime Jaquez Jr. making first-team All-Rookie.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • So much story on Reba was mined from that initial premise that there was this other woman (Barbra Jean) who ultimately forced her way into Reba’s life.
    Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Whatever issues this season had, stepping back from the ledge on which the entire premise seemed to be finding itself at the conclusion of last season isn’t the root cause.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The presumption is that LLMs tend to favor certain word choices, sentence structures, and linguistic patterns that differ subtly from typical human writing.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Indeed, the presumption had been that any payments to Ukraine’s allies for expenses would come from the $300 billion in Russia’s frozen assets in Western banks.
    Saleem H. Ali, Forbes, 25 Feb. 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
  • On March 27, Coney Barrett, a Trump nominee, expressed major concerns about reviving the doctrine, which hasn't been used since the 1930s and could severely weaken the power of government agencies.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The central question before the court was whether Congress and the FCC violated that doctrine through the scheme.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • That insight often comes from someone testing a previously unchallenged assumption.
    Mark Nevins, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Showdown at Little Rock Similar assumptions guided events even in places where desegregation appeared to be working.
    Essence, Essence, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Addressing reporters at the airport, Andrew Tate, who holds dual citizenship in the U.K. and United States, invoked a U.S. judicial axiom of being innocent until proven guilty.
    David Catanese, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2025
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