as in therefore
for this or that reason
according to that line of reasoning, the eyewitness couldn't identify the aircraft, ergo it must have been from another planet
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Recent Examples of ergo
Longtime Toronto pundit Damien Cox this past week suggested that the remedy might have to be a Marner trade, with the Leafs getting back young, promising (ergo: cheap) talent in the form of, say, a top-six forward and top-four defenseman.
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Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2019
In the hubbub around this controversy, likely many doctors felt too embarrassed to grab the pharma handout—ergo my reborn popularity.
—Kent Sepkowitz, Slate Magazine, 17 Feb. 2017
The global television audience is (at least) sixteen hundred times as big; ergo, the halftime show is more music video than live concert.
—Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2017
Isaacson helps us right away with The Big One: Jobs might have felt abandoned because he was put up for adoption, ergo, sentenced to a life of searching for approval.
—John C Abell, WIRED, 27 Oct. 2011
Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2019
In the hubbub around this controversy, likely many doctors felt too embarrassed to grab the pharma handout—ergo my reborn popularity.
—Kent Sepkowitz, Slate Magazine, 17 Feb. 2017
The global television audience is (at least) sixteen hundred times as big; ergo, the halftime show is more music video than live concert.
—Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2017
Isaacson helps us right away with The Big One: Jobs might have felt abandoned because he was put up for adoption, ergo, sentenced to a life of searching for approval.
—John C Abell, WIRED, 27 Oct. 2011
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ergo
Adverb
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The legislation would, therefore, reserve authority over cannabis rescheduling exclusively for Congress.—
Dario Sabaghi,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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And some long-time critics of the current AI landscape, such as Gary Marcus, disagree with Dalio entirely, arguing that the bubble is due to pop because the AI technology currently on the market is too error-prone to be relied upon, and therefore can’t be scaled away.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
12 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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That means no more security updates, patches, or tech support, so now’s the time to upgrade.—
StackCommerce Team,
PC Magazine,
14 Sep. 2025
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Through it, the Levetts have become so recognizable that fellow Universal fans will stop them in the parks to ask for selfies.—
Bianca Bosker,
The Atlantic,
14 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Effectively, this turned the workspace into a yank buffer along with all your documents, and undoing any destructive editing operation thus became merely another cut and paste.—
Cameron Kaiser,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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Heck, even the unassuming Reid acknowledges how remarkable, and thus improbable, it’s been.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
12 Sep. 2025
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The deliver-to-your-door system’s probably the most personalized box dye that exists, hence its 10 Best of Beauty wins over the years.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
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This can result when your heel is high off the ground and your big toe is pressed flat into the ground or turf, hence the name of the injury.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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There is indeed evidence that inhaling xenon can increase the activity of HIFs, and consequently increase levels of EPO in the blood.—
Alex Hutchinson,
Outside,
15 Sep. 2025
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And anyone who doesn’t conform becomes a target for ridicule, and consequently a warning to others.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Ergo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ergo. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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