ipse dixit

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Noun
  • My parents came over to the U.S. from Ireland in 1959 and education and hard work were just givens.
    Ayesha Javed, TIME, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Picture, Director, and Supporting Actor feel like givens, and Oppenheimer should challenge in Actor, Adapted Screenplay, and a bunch of craft categories, too.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 17 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • This is a wisp of a premise — aside from her muted graffiti efforts, our protagonist’s grief manifests itself more as general moodiness than anything particularly tangible.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Part of the premise was to see what other people think of this, and each event is different.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • If convicted in adult court, he could be sentenced to 25 years to life with a statutory presumption of release after 25 years.
    Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Fortunately, she didn't get seriously injured as this presumption could have cost her even more.
    Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 23 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • As a result, in the last quarter century, leading firms began implementing the converse of Taylor’s dictum.
    Steve Denning, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Smith co-wrote six of the 18 songs — his road schedule kept him from writing more, but, as the Nashville dictum goes, the best song always wins.
    Melinda Newman, Billboard, 4 Oct. 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
  • By contrast, animation foregrounds the pictorial, which is its own aesthetic doctrine.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Russia’s nuclear doctrine holds that an attack on any element of its deterrent force justifies a nuclear response.
    William M. Moon, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Connected leaders also are better positioned to challenge assumptions and bring a new and diverse perspective to the rest of the organization, A New Era for the Workforce The rise of portfolio careers among executives mirrors a broader trend among young professionals.
    Sanjay Srivastava, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Many believe looted treasures must be sent back where the once came from; many more think that Western museums are the best and safest home for these artifacts, an assumption some scholars have argued against.
    Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 24 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Whereas neoclassical economics presented itself as a universally applicable science based on certain fundamental axioms, Dobb emphasized history, class conflict, and imperialism.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2024
  • But underneath all of these more intricate structures is that same original group idea, with its four axioms.
    Leila Sloman, WIRED, 6 Oct. 2024

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“Ipse dixit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ipse%20dixit. Accessed 20 Nov. 2024.

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