obiter dicta
- plural of obiter dictum.
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
Never has so much incident, outrage and media-fanned obiter dicta successfully intruded from the fringes.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 14, 2014
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
The obiter dicta on Mysticism in Nettleship's Remains are of great value.
From Christian Mysticism by Inge, William Ralph
