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Example sentences for: dicta
How can you use “dicta” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
“Beyond Compare” [OBITER DICTA, XVIII, 4] does not mention a problem I had as a boy in referring to the younger of my two old brothers.
We thought we could ignore the error and it would go away, but readers keep reminding us of what might be called, because of its prominence, a typogiraffical error: in Murdering the Language [OBITER DICTA, XX,4,5], the grammatically proper form would have been Omar m'a tuée, (reflecting the feminine gender of the preceding m ') and not, as printed, tué .
The censors of the moment would have us refer to Mr. Perry as (to use examples from OBITER DICTA) a “non-slim African American adult male.”
Intrigued by Milton Horowitz's A Discouraging Word [OBITER DICTA, XXII, 1, 13], I set about tracking the word balagan along its etymological course back from the modern Hebrew into which, according to Milton Horowitz quoting Herman Wouk, the word was borrowed from Russian.
[OBITER DICTA, XVIII, 1] I, for one, am proud to be an unreconstructed linguistic traditionalist.