ipso facto
Example Sentences
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"All I'm saying is you don't ipso facto believe somebody," she said.
From Fox News ● May 20, 2020
A liberal arts education does not ipso facto lead to a life of low-wage jobs and financial irresponsibility.
From Slate ● Nov. 10, 2019
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
“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
What was right for my great-grandfather is not ipso facto right for myself.
From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Heller, Otto