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
Never has so much incident, outrage and media-fanned obiter dicta successfully intruded from the fringes.
From The Guardian • Jul. 14, 2014
"It is an obiter dictum," somebody said to me, apparently thinking that Latin would persuade me.
From Newsweek • Feb. 16, 2013
Si vocat officium, turba cedente vehetur 50 dives et ingenti curret super ora Liburna atque obiter leget aut scribet vel dormiet intus; namque facit somnum clausa lectica fenestra.
From Readings from Latin Verse With Notes by Bushnell, Curtis C.
