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

Our house was the highest on the mountainside, which made it, ergo, the coolest spot in Welch.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls