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

Why, even some of my own innocent notions of the past--of pre-Macquarie Street days--seemed nearer the real thing than one or two of poor Mr. Smith's obiter dicta.

From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by Dawson, A. J. (Alec John)