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ipso facto

[ip-soh fak-toh] / ˈɪp soʊ ˈfæk toʊ /
ADVERB
by the fact itself
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"All I'm saying is you don't ipso facto believe somebody," she said.

From Fox News May 20, 2020

While admitting that “knowledge of the circumstance is not ipso facto knowledge of the poem,” he is keen to demonstrate “that facts lying outside the poem are often crucial to its inner working.”

From New York Times Aug. 31, 2018

Dealing with shady people does not ipso facto mean that the transaction involves dirty money.

From Slate May 7, 2018

“A taste about which you argue, with others or yourself, ceases ipso facto being a taste – it turns into a value.”

From The Guardian Aug. 18, 2017

If he admitted the other interpretation, he would be ipso facto converted to the view of the Lord in the Prologue.

From Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe by George Santayana



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