ipso facto

[ip-soh fak-toh] / ˈɪp soʊ ˈfæk toʊ /

ADVERB

by the fact itself

Synonyms

WEAK

actually by that very fact

Example Sentences

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Under its provisions, anyone looking too closely at anything regarding state secrets is, ipso facto, a criminal.

From Slate • Apr. 12, 2023

"All I'm saying is you don't ipso facto believe somebody," she said.

From Fox News • May 20, 2020

Any outcome that displeases them is ipso facto a bastardized one.

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2020

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

The very conflict of the relative ipso facto puts it in perfect unity with the absolute.

From The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker by Lloyd, Alfred H.