ergo

Example Sentences

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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

This has been a quality year — ergo, the following list, presented in random order, shoehorns 18 series into 10 more or less themed slots.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2024

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

They never consider, for a moment, the phrase "post hoc ergo propter hoc."

From Salon • Sep. 14, 2023

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