obiter

Example Sentences

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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

I lay claim to no personality of my own, and any obiter dicta that may fall from my pen in the course of the ensuing narrative are but reflections of Paragot's philosophy.

From The Belovéd Vagabond by Locke, William John