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Noun
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Ensure your home is securely locked when vacating the premises.—
STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
28 Apr. 2026 -
Ensure your home is securely locked when vacating the premises.—
KANSAS CITY STAR WEATHER BOT,
Kansas City Star,
27 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Another postulates that sleep removes waste from the brain.—
Shayla Love,
New Yorker,
18 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Ruben does little to dissuade Niall’s presumptions.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
21 Apr. 2026
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This notion was based on outdated presumptions of hillforts as being occupied by violent, prehistoric savages.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
10 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Kansas City officials project 650,000 visitors for the 2026 World Cup, but experts and fine print raise questions about the assumptions behind that number.—
David Hudnall,
Kansas City Star,
30 Apr. 2026
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Spirit based its turnaround plan on lower fuel costs, but a surge in fuel prices tied to the Iran war upended those assumptions.—
Rena Rowe,
The Washington Examiner,
30 Apr. 2026
Noun
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His preference would be to find simpler axioms for quantum mechanics — intuitive principles that would let theorists re-derive the theory in a new form altogether.—
Daniel Garisto,
Quanta Magazine,
7 Nov. 2025
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In other words, as Cleveland tore through the league last season, the players responded to most of the milestones reached with a collective shrug and worn axioms about nothing mattering until the playoffs.—
Joe Vardon,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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By now, decades into Americans’ pursuit of cooking as a mainstream hobby, certain maxims have become near-law among food lovers.—
Emily Heil,
Washington Post,
25 Mar. 2026
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Maybe anyone planning long journeys should take those maxims as advice anyhow.—
Michael Teo Van Runkle,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The conservative justices peppered Stewart with hypotheticals.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
24 Mar. 2026
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In the view of the Department of Defense, Anthropic kneecapped the partnership by insisting on unnecessary guardrails, attempting to litigate specific hypotheticals, and then dragging its feet in the subsequent negotiations.—
Harry Booth,
Time,
11 Mar. 2026
Noun
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While none of this comes as any surprise to God, the Apostle Paul worried about believers falling prey to people who teach false gospels.—
Chris Roemer,
Baltimore Sun,
2 Apr. 2026
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All four gospels - Matthew, Mark, Luke and John - describe Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey while a crowd met him, waving palm fronds.—
Josh Kelly,
Oklahoman,
25 Mar. 2026
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“Ipse dixits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ipse%20dixits. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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