单词 | ipso facto |
释义 | ipso facto (once / 17280 pages) adv Use the term ipso facto when the very fact that something exists or occurs means that something else is true. For example, if you're born in the United States these days, ipso facto you have a Social Security number. Ipso facto literally means "by that very fact" in Latin, and it's often used in legal documents, although writers, philosophers, and scientists use it too. The writer Norman Mailer once said, "If you grow up in Brooklyn, you’re a New Yorker ipso facto." In other words, the fact that you live in a borough of New York automatically means you're a citizen of that city. WORD FAMILYipso facto USAGE EXAMPLESHistorian Josh Zeitz told USA Today that “the term law and order in modern American politics is, ipso facto, a racially tinged term.” Wall Street Journal(Aug 29, 2016) In a world in which tech companies offer a kind of ipso facto surveillance, what are their responsibilities to their users? Los Angeles Times(Jul 21, 2016) The bitterest argument then was that the absence of women from the membership of any golf club is, ipso facto, the sexual equivalent of racism. Golf Digest(May 21, 2016) adv by the fact itself ipso facto, her innocence was established |
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