obiter
Example Sentences
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Alito is hardly the first justice to mislead through obiter dicta.
From Washington Post ● May 6, 2022
Hersey and Wolfe were given to issuing restrictive obiter dicta about nonfiction writing.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019
Quite the best-written and most incisive obiter dicta I have read since I went through the page proofs of my latest novel.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 18, 2013
"It is an obiter dictum," somebody said to me, apparently thinking that Latin would persuade me.
From Newsweek ● Feb. 16, 2013
Canon Hannay makes great play as usual with the humours of Irish officialdom, and his obiter dicta on the mental outlook of police officers are shrewd as well as entertaining.
From Humours of Irish Life by Various
