ergo

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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

Let’s give the last word, plus one of mine, to the famous phrase of French philosopher and scientist Rene Descartes: “Cogito ergo sum ridens” — “I think, therefore I am laughing.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 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

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

From Salon • Sep. 14, 2023

“Latin, yes! Cogito, ergo sum. ‘I think, therefore I am.’”

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood