ipso facto
Example Sentences
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Under its provisions, anyone looking too closely at anything regarding state secrets is, ipso facto, a criminal.
From Slate • Apr. 12, 2023
"All I'm saying is you don't ipso facto believe somebody," she said.
From Fox News • May 20, 2020
While admitting that “knowledge of the circumstance is not ipso facto knowledge of the poem,” he is keen to demonstrate “that facts lying outside the poem are often crucial to its inner working.”
From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2018
Christopher Hitchens called it “an extraordinarily irritating book, written by one of those people who smugly believe that, having lost their faith, they must ipso facto have found their reason”.
From The Guardian • Nov. 29, 2017
If he admitted the other interpretation, he would be ipso facto converted to the view of the Lord in the Prologue.
From Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe by Santayana, George
