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
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
Christopher Hitchens called it “an extraordinarily irritating book, written by one of those people who smugly believe that, having lost their faith, they must ipso facto have found their reason”.
From The Guardian • Nov. 29, 2017
It is doubtful whether, as is commonly assumed, they were considered as ipso facto enemies; they were rather guests.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
