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Druckenmiller’s opposition to Treasury policy in essence boils down to Margaret Thatcher’s famous dictum: “You cannot buck the market.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

A common and mostly true dictum holds that democratic societies possess a capacity for self-criticism and self-correction that autocracies don’t.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

Rather than trying to follow and spurring others to follow the dubious dictum “Don’t look away,” we should ask: “Why am I looking away?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 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

After a page-long digression on pacifism, Christianity, and the Roman Empire, Keegan returns to what is wrong with Clausewitz’s dictum and with the modern understanding of war it captures.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

So this is weird dicta in a random case that is trying to undo crappy but unfortunately enforceable doctrine.

From Slate ● Dec. 30, 2025

And it included dicta — a nonbinding observation that can be cited as a “persuasive authority” in future litigation — that planted the seeds for preclearance’s demise.

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2025

Bend menswear’s dicta to your will like Thelonious Monk stretching time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2023

Alito is hardly the first justice to mislead through obiter dicta.

From Washington Post ● May 6, 2022

Bobby identified with him in that respect and especially valued one of his dicta: “Never obey anyone’s command unless it is coming from within you.”

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

But he chafed against the strict dictums of the Eastern Bloc state and fled his native country in 1956, making his way to Paris by 1958, where he met Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

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

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2023

A favored trick was tossing off dramatic dictums.

From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2019

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

One of the time-honored dictums of the day was that falling bodies fell with a velocity proportioned to their weight.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists by Elbert Hubbard