obiter
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Alito is hardly the first justice to mislead through obiter dicta.
From Washington Post ● May 6, 2022
Hersey and Wolfe were given to issuing restrictive obiter dicta about nonfiction writing.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019
Quite the best-written and most incisive obiter dicta I have read since I went through the page proofs of my latest novel.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 18, 2013
"It is an obiter dictum," somebody said to me, apparently thinking that Latin would persuade me.
From Newsweek ● Feb. 16, 2013
But in neither of the cases was this point directly involved, and both opinions are obiter dicta in relation to it.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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