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
  • Hassett, who leads the National Economic Council, argued strenuously against the op-ed’s premise and claims Monday.
    Dan Mangan, CNBC, 10 Feb. 2025
  • The premise revolves around pitting exes and co-parents Christina and Tarek against one another in a house-flipping showdown.
    Mackenzie Schmidt, People.com, 10 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • And with a flood of new programming sources, along with the presumption that the crown jewel of children's educational television can be privately supported, the question is can CPB survive DOGE's ax?
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
  • If my presumption is wrong, then reaching out would be even more awkward.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Did Jensen want to talk about the absurd, last-minute Biden administration dictum that determined only 18 U.S. allies were friendly enough to get as many of Nvidia’s advanced AI chips as possible?
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 2 Feb. 2025
  • Instead, Martel echoes the great aesthete himself, Oscar Wilde, in his serene dictum that all art is perfectly useless.
    Donna Tartt, Harper's Magazine, 2 July 2024
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
  • What Clarence Thomas Has Said on Obergefell Thomas, the court's most conservative judge, wrote in a dissenting opinion in Obergefell that the majority opinion stretched the doctrine of substantive due process rights found in the Fourteenth Amendment too far.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Christian doctrine teaches that at the end of time, God will restore each person’s body, reuniting it with their soul.
    Therese Cory, The Conversation, 28 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Our analysis also makes some other conservative assumptions given the policy’s uncertainty.
    Emily Badger, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
  • And so is having people around you who can argue with you and question your assumptions.
    Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Since the Civil War, this axiom has been avoided only a handful of times.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025
  • The hope of deriving one set of rules, or axioms, to govern all mathematical truths was fatally undermined.
    Theodore McDarrah, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
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