dictum
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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
After Celan, the dictum could no longer stand untouched.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 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
After a page-long digression on pacifism, Christianity, and the Roman Empire, Keegan returns to what is wrong with Clausewitz’s dictum and with the modern understanding of war it captures.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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
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
A favored trick was tossing off dramatic dictums.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2019
Unfortunately, however, too many of her sentences sound like certainties or dictums.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 25, 2019
Their hoary dictums suffice for this day and land.
From Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
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