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ipso facto

[ip-soh fak-toh] / ˈɪp soʊ ˈfæk toʊ /
ADVERB
by the fact itself
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"All I'm saying is you don't ipso facto believe somebody," she said.

From Fox News • May 20, 2020

Dealing with shady people does not ipso facto mean that the transaction involves dirty money.

From Slate • May 7, 2018

Christopher Hitchens called it “an extraordinarily irritating book, written by one of those people who smugly believe that, having lost their faith, they must ipso facto have found their reason”.

From The Guardian • Nov. 29, 2017

John repeatedly reminds everyone around him — and, ipso facto, the audience — that he intends to mend fences with his lady love.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2017

In 1800 Henry was able to return to Rome, and in 1803, being now senior cardinal bishop, he became ipso facto dean of the Sacred College and bishop of Ostia and Velletri.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various



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