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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

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

In between, she violates her professional dictum of avoiding emotional attachment by falling for Alfredo, who offers true love.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

Zero clashed with one of the central tenets of Western philosophy, a dictum whose roots were in the number-philosophy of Pythagoras and whose importance came from the paradoxes of Zeno.

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

So this is weird dicta in a random case that is trying to undo crappy but unfortunately enforceable doctrine.

From Slate ● Dec. 30, 2025

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

Alito is hardly the first justice to mislead through obiter dicta.

From Washington Post ● May 6, 2022

The Pythagoreans lived according to the dicta of their leader.

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

Some of Grede’s advice cuts against popular dictums from the 2010s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026

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

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2023

One of Fidel Castro’s most famous dictums came in June 1961 in response to Lunes, a culture supplement to Revolución, the newspaper mouthpiece of the revolution.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2020

A favored trick was tossing off dramatic dictums.

From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2019

One of the time-honored dictums of the day was that falling bodies fell with a velocity proportioned to their weight.

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