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a fortiori

[ah fohr-ti-oh-ree, ey fawr-shee-awr-ahy, ey 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

What may be clear to an American �lite may be less clear to the majority in Congress and, a fortiori, to the mass of electors.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

If our instructor in the general course must be a scholar to be successful, the man in more advanced work must be one a fortiori.

From College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Klapper, Paul

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 Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)



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