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a fortiori

[ah fohr-ti-oh-ree, ay fawr-shee-awr-ahy, ay fohr-shee-ohr-ahy] / ɑ ˌfoʊr tɪˈoʊ ri, eɪ ˌfɔr ʃiˈɔr aɪ, eɪ ˌfoʊr ʃiˈoʊr aɪ /


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"That said... that does not mean that the individuals who were targeted, and a fortiori the person who died, were themselves involved in trafficking. I want to be absolutely clear on that".

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

For, after all, is it not by now conceded that, a fortiori, if marzeydoats and doazey-doats then the invariable corallary is habeas corpus mandamus potatus?

From Time Magazine Archive

Therefore if accidents can be real, a fortiori incomplete substances can be real.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey

The spaces which precede or which follow simple nebulæ, and a fortiori groups of nebulæ, contain generally few stars.

From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by J. Ellard Gore

That they were Kelts rather than Germans is the commonest doctrine, and that they were Britons rather than Gaels is a common one; the arguments that prove the latter proving the first a fortiori.

From The Ethnology of the British Islands by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham


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