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Noun
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Where the show’s values were once givens, almost diorama labels, now they’re presented as more fugitive and unstable, what its characters would hope the world to be.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
16 Oct. 2025 -
Among geologists, there are givens: Humans don’t build things that last a million years.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
8 Oct. 2025
Noun
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This threat to our election security, the basic premise of our democracy, is forward looking.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
8 Feb. 2026
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But a drone had hit one of its salons, shattering a heating pipe and flooding the premises.—
Tim Lister,
CNN Money,
8 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The maximalism and somewhat uncompromising presumption of a newspaper, with its warren of sections and columns and byways, is a quiet reproach to its audience’s most parochial instincts.—
Becca Rothfeld,
New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2026
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If it is believed that a person has engaged in criminal behavior, this should be handled in a court of law with the presumption of innocence until proven guilty.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
9 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Testing the limits of the dictum that targets of his opprobrium should take him seriously, not literally, Trump is aggressively threatening to swallow Greenland, despite the current lack of threats and his previous neglect of America’s military role on the island.—
Doug Bandow,
Washington Post,
16 Jan. 2026
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Not that the publishing industry can’t or shouldn’t address the more general problem Kuznetsova highlights, which applies to this dictum, too.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Dec. 2025
Noun
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The reason, the authors of a new study postulate, has to do with light pollution.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
21 Aug. 2025
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Now, tangible results have emerged in a field replete with postulates and presumptions.—
Jenna Ahart,
Quanta Magazine,
2 July 2025
Noun
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This doctrine was used during the Civil Rights era; if a white defendant was found not guilty of murdering a Black victim in state court in the South, for example, he could still be tried for a civil rights violation in federal court.—
Lorena O’Neil,
Rolling Stone,
7 Feb. 2026
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Successful leverage of the First Sale doctrine can significantly reduce tariff costs, though companies will need to meet the stringent conditions of the rule and provide extensive documentation of all transactions to CBP.—
Kate Nishimura,
Sourcing Journal,
6 Feb. 2026
Noun
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With so many decisions to make, the Chiefs would have to get awfully creative to extend cornerback Trent McDuffie (who is entering the final year of his contract), which is why his name has floated in trade hypotheticals.—
Pete Sweeney,
Kansas City Star,
5 Feb. 2026
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And if the hypotheticals are not enough to dissuade, history is littered with teams trading away their future for immediate glories, seeing their plans implode, and being left with a ruinous future that becomes a hopeless present while another team reaps the benefits.—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
30 Jan. 2026
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Some facts could begin to emerge around a situation that was mired in assumptions or unknown elements.—
Magi Helena,
Dallas Morning News,
11 Feb. 2026
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The team’s findings challenge long-standing assumptions about how vibrational images represent atomic motion, and offer a more accurate way to interpret data from high-resolution spectroscopic tools.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Ipse dixit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ipse%20dixit. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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