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This week's theme: words about words.
obiter dictum (OB-i-tuhr DIK-tuhm) noun, plural obiter dicta
1. A passing comment.
2. An observation or opinion by a judge that is incidental to the
case in question, and not binding as a precedent.
[From Latin, literally, saying by the way.]
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-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)
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"'Abstract Expressionism was being deployed as a cold war weapon,'
(Frances Stonor) Saunders jauntily asserts. ... Obiter dicta like
Saunders's pronouncement above highlight her irreducible problem."
Josef Joffe; America's Secret Weapon; New York Times Book Review;
Apr 23, 2000.
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