obiter
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
"It is an obiter dictum," somebody said to me, apparently thinking that Latin would persuade me.
From Newsweek ● Feb. 16, 2013
It was in the process of "diffusing the Terror" that most of his philosophical obiter dicta were uttered.
From Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle by Henry Noel Brailsford
