obiter
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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
But obiter dicta indicated that the courts may grant to the writer's representatives an injunction against publication or misuse.
From Copyright: Its History and Its Law by Richard Rogers Bowker
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