dictum

Mr. Emanuel approvingly cites the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s dictum to “fight terrorism as if there’s no peace process, and work to achieve peace as if there’s no terror.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

Putting the experience of making “Faces of Death” in perspective, Goldhaber references Jean-Luc Godard’s famous dictum that every film is a documentary of its own making.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2026

The government held, and Hamilton got the economy running again using Bagehot’s dictum External link: “Lend freely, at a penalty rate, against good collateral.”

From Barron's ● Mar. 1, 2026

It reminds me of the long-held dictum that animated series can get away with plots that their live-action counterparts either can’t or struggle to enact convincingly.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2025

Women at home, nevertheless, would repeat the old Mexican dictum that a man should be feo,fuerte, y formal.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

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

The Court made clear, in dicta, that such a child is rare.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2021

Even the cases’ dicta give no indication that it would apply in something like a presidential immunity 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

She followed her father’s dictums on health: Modern medicine was nearly useless, and the “good body” would heal itself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

A new school system will be developed from a “bottom-up” movement, not “top-down” dictums.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2023

These dictums ranged from “Our Revolution Must Be Intersectional” to “Gather Often” as a way to “honor vulnerability and connect over gratitude.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2018

The Wing, a women-only social club and workspace in New York City, got flak for its line of Handmaid’s swag, too, which included notebooks and pens embossed with peppy dictums of female empowerment.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 10, 2018

And he could muster up nothing but an irritating sense of hollow wordiness in many of his former dictums and utterances, a vast futility of effort.

From Burned Bridges by Sinclair, Bertrand W.