dictum
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In his own Senate hearing last month, Warsh mocked policymakers and economists for ignoring Friedman’s dictum.
From Barron's ● May 15, 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
Write what you know, goes the dictum, and according to Mr. Pearl “some of this happened.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
It reminds me of the long-held dictum that animated series can get away with plots that their live-action counterparts either can’t or struggle to enact convincingly.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2025
The world would be a simpler place to understand if this dictum of Clause- witz’s were true.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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And it included dicta — a nonbinding observation that can be cited as a “persuasive authority” in future litigation — that planted the seeds for preclearance’s demise.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2025
Bend menswear’s dicta to your will like Thelonious Monk stretching time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2023
Alito is hardly the first justice to mislead through obiter dicta.
From Washington Post ● May 6, 2022
Until then, and unfortunately even today, among some, "knowledge" could be created simply by some authority saying something was so, ipso dicta.
From Textbooks ● Nov. 29, 2017
Bobby identified with him in that respect and especially valued one of his dicta: “Never obey anyone’s command unless it is coming from within you.”
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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She followed her father’s dictums on health: Modern medicine was nearly useless, and the “good body” would heal itself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
A new school system will be developed from a “bottom-up” movement, not “top-down” dictums.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
A favored trick was tossing off dramatic dictums.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 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
Without accepting any of the Carr dictums upon theology and theological activities, he was fast growing doubtful of his fitness for the job of herding other people into the fold.
From Burned Bridges by Sinclair, Bertrand W.
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