ipse dixit

noun

Definition of ipse dixitnext
as in given

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  1. given
  2. premise
  3. presumption
  4. dictum
  5. postulate
  6. doctrine
  7. hypothetical
  8. assumption
Noun
  • There were some givens (the Detroit Tigers’ dealing Tarik Skubal), some surprises (the Baltimore Orioles’ moving on from Adley Rutschman) and plenty of hugs given along the way.
    — Johnny Flores Jr, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Schedule flexibility, reliable childcare, predictable transportation—these are treated as givens in how jobs are designed.
    — Caroline Fairchild, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2026
Definition of given
Noun
  • Sustained gunfire began past midnight at the premises of the Diori Hamani International Airport, which hosts a major military base, according to an AP witness who requested anonymity for safety reasons.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 29 Aug. 2026
  • There was nothing particularly novel about the show’s premise, but the scripts were refreshingly dense with jokes, prioritizing laughs over contrived drama or seasonlong relationship arcs.
    — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of premise
Noun
  • The fact that plaintiffs can gerrymander market definitions to trigger PNB’s structural presumption is exactly the kind of abuse that has led scholars to argue PNB should be overturned.
    — Shubha Ghosh, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2026
  • These were all reasonable presumptions at that time but would also require years of data to evaluate.
    — David N. Hackney, STAT, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of presumption
Noun
  • That dictum applies beyond the theater.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 18 June 2026
  • Safe and familiar as that trajectory might be in a post-#GirlBoss rom-com, Goldstein and Joe Kelly’s script adds a little spice into the mix by questioning the dictums of today’s office culture.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 4 June 2026
Definition of dictum
Noun
  • Not really Dagmar Bruss, professor and Head of the Quantum Information Theory group at HHU, and her doctoral researcher, Pedro Barrios Hita, conducted a new analysis of the postulates used in the 2021 paper and found one to be too restrictive.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 22 June 2026
  • Euclid’s postulates for geometry; various schemes for standardizing arithmetic.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 29 Apr. 2026
Definition of postulate
Noun
  • Less apparent, though, is the dramatic shift in domestic security doctrine that undergirds these efforts.
    — Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Greece sees the system as central to modernizing its forces amid tensions with NATO neighbor Turkey, embracing new doctrines to counter ballistic missiles, drones, cyber threats and other evolving forms of warfare.
    — Sam Mednick, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of doctrine
Noun
  • There’s no reason to believe organizers of PGA tournaments, marathons, NASCAR races and similar sporting would ever demand payment, and thus the hypotheticals are arguably scare tactics rather than realistic consequences.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 21 July 2026
  • His second-guessing doesn’t stanch his inner torrent of bile, which continues through dinner with Irène and her mother, and goes on for another fifteen pages of emotional hypotheticals and conditionals.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 9 July 2026
Definition of hypothetical
Noun
  • The alternative is to allow each side’s strategy to reinforce the other’s worst assumptions until escalation begins to look less like a choice than an inevitability.
    — Hamidreza Azizi, Time, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Bareilles is mourning a few things — the deaths of close friends, dreams of easy fertility, assumptions of female autonomy, the American dream — but the music soars, more often than not.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of assumption
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