ergo
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She is a character in a workplace comedy and ergo utterly resigned to the job being hell.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
Let’s give the last word, plus one of mine, to the famous phrase of French philosopher and scientist Rene Descartes: “Cogito ergo sum ridens” — “I think, therefore I am laughing.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2025
There is someone who writes to me almost weekly about media’s failures — and I assume, ergo, my failure — and he won’t be mollified.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2024
They never consider, for a moment, the phrase "post hoc ergo propter hoc."
From Salon • Sep. 14, 2023
Sinjin took in the sight of the man in the fig leaf trying to commune with the ergo chair.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
Vocabulary lists containing ergo
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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Foreign Words and Phrases Commonly Used in English, List 2
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The Merchant of Venice
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