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Druckenmiller’s opposition to Treasury policy in essence boils down to Margaret Thatcher’s famous dictum: “You cannot buck the market.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

Yet the fact that a dictum such as “choose kindness” works as a standalone thought does not make it unworthy of development.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

Mr. Emanuel approvingly cites the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s dictum to “fight terrorism as if there’s no peace process, and work to achieve peace as if there’s no terror.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

Putting the experience of making “Faces of Death” in perspective, Goldhaber references Jean-Luc Godard’s famous dictum that every film is a documentary of its own making.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2026

“Personally,” he said, “my great ambition is to count all this”—he waved vaguely at the treasure around him—“and possibly sort it into piles. ‘Know thyself,’ that’s my dictum.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

Bend menswear’s dicta to your will like Thelonious Monk stretching time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2023

In these talks, Milch mixes jokes, anecdotes from his own life, lessons he learned from his teacher Robert Penn Warren, and dicta such as "Don't think about writing when you're not writing."

From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2022

The Court made clear, in dicta, that such a child is rare.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2021

But in deciding that the board lacked the requisite authority, the court also included expansive dicta about deference to the executive on matters of national security.

From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2018

The Pythagoreans lived according to the dicta of their leader.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

But he chafed against the strict dictums of the Eastern Bloc state and fled his native country in 1956, making his way to Paris by 1958, where he met Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

A new school system will be developed from a “bottom-up” movement, not “top-down” dictums.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2023

Unfortunately, however, too many of her sentences sound like certainties or dictums.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 25, 2019

The Wing, a women-only social club and workspace in New York City, got flak for its line of Handmaid’s swag, too, which included notebooks and pens embossed with peppy dictums of female empowerment.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 10, 2018

Their hoary dictums suffice for this day and land.

From Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda