- plural of dictum.
dicta
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Bend menswear’s dicta to your will like Thelonious Monk stretching time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2023
In these talks, Milch mixes jokes, anecdotes from his own life, lessons he learned from his teacher Robert Penn Warren, and dicta such as "Don't think about writing when you're not writing."
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2022
Alito is hardly the first justice to mislead through obiter dicta.
From Washington Post ● May 6, 2022
Rather, the OLC memo cited three appeals court cases: two criminal cases that discussed the possibility only in speculative dicta, and one civil case.
From Slate ● Dec. 11, 2018
The Pythagoreans lived according to the dicta of their leader.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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