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Fortunately for the viewer, Tom disappears early from the action — ergo “Vanished.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026

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

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

The French Enlightenment philosopher René Descartes famously observed that every self-aware being is able to declare, figuratively if not literally, the Latin statement "Cogito ergo sum" — that is, "I think therefore I am."

From Salon • Dec. 6, 2022

Asserting that De Soto’s visit caused the subsequent collapse of the Caddo and Coosa may be only the old logical fallacy of post hoc ergo propter hoc.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann