mutatis mutandis

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He said, mutatis mutandis, that if you want to write, find a nice place, sit down in peace and quiet and forget about seeking out brilliant thoughts.

From Scientific American • Oct. 6, 2023

That sentence, mutatis mutandis, could have been written about India, where Islamic invasions and British rule still produced an anxiety about authenticity — what was one’s own, what had come from outside.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2021

But they are in fact the same thing, mutatis mutandis.

From Salon • Nov. 22, 2015

These things, mutatis mutandis, have subsequently been reproduced, in various combinations and in milder forms, throughout the whole civilized world.

From Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History by Labriola, Antonio

Mr. David Wilkinson, the Native Commissioner, had a most complete knowledge of the Confederation of Mbua, and he seems somewhat hastily to have assumed that the Mbua system prevailed mutatis mutandis throughout the group.

From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Thomson, Basil