ipso
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- The agreement was signed, and, ipso facto, it became legally binding immediately.
- ipso facto
Examples
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In the latter case, the severity of the threat consequent on the activity itself made its injurious consequences ipso facto unreasonable, and therefore liability was fault-based.
Academic text (1998) -
If one has identified an invidiously discriminatory application of a punishment, then, ipso facto, that is unusual.
Academic text (2008) -
Otherwise, ipso facto, they would not have lived or be living today, as the case may be.
Blog text (3) -
This good pressure, ipso facto, was given by the teachers themselves.
Academic text (2014) -
Indeed, the wild is, ipso facto, abnormal.
Academic text (2006) -
So, if creatures are thought to be fierce... they are, ipso facto, fierce!
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All Christians stand not only in a concentric relationship to Christ, but by their relationship to Christ, they stand ipso facto in a graced relationship to each other and to all human beings.
Academic text (2007) -
Nations that may not have known one another and thus, ipso facto, could not have been in conflict, are brought together under conditions that contribute little to peaceful resolutions of emergent problems.
Academic text (1992) -
If all the smart people are assuring them that the treasured narrative is true, then, ipso facto, the treasured narrative is true.
Blog text (23) -
If the event is canceled, then it is, ipso facto, a violation of our contract.
Idioms
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ipso comes from Latin and means 'itself' or 'in itself', and you often see it in legal and scholarly phrases like 'ipso facto'. So ipso points to something that is true 'by itself' or 'on its own', which is why people use it to show that something is true without more proof.