ergo
Example Sentences
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Fortunately for the viewer, Tom disappears early from the action — ergo “Vanished.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026
She is a character in a workplace comedy and ergo utterly resigned to the job being hell.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
There is someone who writes to me almost weekly about media’s failures — and I assume, ergo, my failure — and he won’t be mollified.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024
The French Enlightenment philosopher René Descartes famously observed that every self-aware being is able to declare, figuratively if not literally, the Latin statement "Cogito ergo sum" — that is, "I think therefore I am."
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2022
The next year Descartes formulated his famous doctrine cogito ergo sum, ‘I think therefore I am’; consequently, there is something, one thing, I know for certain.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing ergo
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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Foreign Words and Phrases Commonly Used in English, List 2
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The Merchant of Venice
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