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Assuming the roster gets back to full health, the givens ahead of Pelle in the rotation would be Tyler Herro, Bam Adebayo, Kel’el Ware, Andrew Wiggins and, perhaps, Davion Mitchell.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
2 Apr. 2025 -
There are some givens in the B’s lineup, as long as there’s good health.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
26 Sep. 2024
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Ensure your home is securely locked when vacating the premises.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
14 June 2025
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Whereas The Other Black Girl, adapted from Zakiya Dalila Harris’ 2021 novel of the same name, takes a satirical premise and then hard turns into thriller.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
12 June 2025
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Bringing Parsimony To Web Scraping The principle of parsimony, also known as Ockham's razor, says not to presume too much when fewer presumptions are enough to explain something.—
Julius Černiauskas,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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Nguyen’s bill removes that presumption in cases where the diagnosis came after the offense or more than five years earlier.—
Ethan Wolin,
Sacbee.com,
5 June 2025
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Ultimately, the old dictum still stands – Garbage in, garbage out.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
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At a Vanity Fair party, Diddy admonished Nash because Cassie’s hair was not in keeping with his dictum.—
Victoria Bekiempis,
Vulture,
28 May 2025
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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
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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
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Because Moore was working for the network, Eady is also suing them by respondeat superior, a legal doctrine that holds employers responsible for the wrongful conduct of their employees.—
Liza Esquibias,
People.com,
6 June 2025
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Wednesday's ruling was unrelated to the Trump administration pending invocation of the state secrets privilege, a legal doctrine often used in military cases.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
5 June 2025
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The assumption is that Jones will be the primary backup to Anthony Richardson, but the Colts are leaving that up to the players to convince the coaching staff based on their performances in training camp and the preseason.—
Justin Grasso,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 June 2025
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In the trust game, the default assumption might be that others are trustworthy.—
Tobias Kalenscher,
Scientific American,
13 June 2025
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Zermelo developed nine simple axioms, that is, unproven basic assumptions, on which everything is based in math.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
9 May 2025
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In some, the conceit of rational or empirical investigation is coupled with a principle that resists being accounted for in that way: axioms of indifference or exhaustion; rulesof inference;principles of detachment; propertiesof between.—
Jeffrey Weiss,
Artforum,
1 May 2025
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“Ipse dixit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ipse%20dixit. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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