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

"Only the best are worth wearing that shield, ergo I am the best, and through that thought it turns out that this footballer, already very talented, becomes even better."

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2023

Asserting that De Soto’s visit caused the subsequent collapse of the Caddo and Coosa may be only the old logical fallacy of post hoc ergo propter hoc.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann