to wit
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The crude special effects won’t win her an Oscar, but on TikTok, perfection takes a backseat to wit.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2023
As we wrap up the year, I’ve got a few random recommendations for 2022 crime books I read this year that didn’t make it into previous columns, to wit:
From Seattle Times • Dec. 13, 2022
“Citigroup bucks the conventional wisdom about the financial crisis: to wit, that it was fomented and exacerbated by the so-called investment banks,” Cohan writes.
From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2018
To Virginia’s first U.S. senator, retaining royal prerogatives in the American presidency disabled the “three legged Stool” of coequal branches, to wit, “if one leg is longer than another, the Stool will not stand.”
From Salon • Aug. 23, 2018
Now precisely the reverse of the above proposition is true, to wit: that nothing right or wrong, in a moral agent, consists in any states of the Sensibility irrespective of the action of the Will.
From Doctrine of the Will by Mahan, Asa
