dictum

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His war aims run athwart the Napoleonic dictum: If you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 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

Since then, Huxley’s dictum of “man remaining man” has become stretched.

From Slate • Jul. 28, 2025

Aeschylus’ dictum from “Agamemnon” that “through suffering comes learning” captured a key lesson in cultivating empathy and communal judgment.

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2025

And if even the people who are familiar with the dictum don’t know what it means, how could the world be “simpler” if it were true?

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker