Dictum in a sentence as a noun

The designs I've seen where the dictum is "Let your creativity run wild!

Fred Brooks' dictum that design should be done by a single mind, or at most two, is a guideline not a rule.

A statement like that which is not part of the official decision are referred to as "dictum".

I think Mr. Ashton is trying to illustrate Sagan's dictum, "If you wish to make apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.

Quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur "anything said in Latin sounds profound".

In Gandhis dictum, non-violent, non-cooperation was "a method of search for social truth.

This article well illuminates the dictum to beware analysts picking their own time horizons.

Which is the modern implementation of Orwell's dictum that he controls the present controls the past and he who controls the past controls the future.

This guy obviously knows the dictum "never point a firearm at anything unless you intend to destroy it."Apparently writers from the New Yorker fall within that set for him.

Maybe the guy you're replying to edited his post, but "If it's a JavaScript framework, please give code examples in JavaScript"--to me--reads as a rather polite request, rather than a dictum as you suggested.

As in Defender, there was no operating system to speak of, and though Sony "required" developers to use libraries, we ignored that dictum and coded the rendering pipeline in R3000 assembly.

It's a gross oversimplification, but I try to live according to the dictum that it is easy to bifurcate behaviours into good and bad, but people are complex and subject to change, thus it is very difficult for me to brand someone as an "*******.

The following excerpt is from Constitution: Analysis and Interpretation pages 1490-91:[^1] Although the Court had long accepted in dictum the principle that prosecution\n by two governments of the same defendant for the same conduct would not\n constitute double jeopardy, it was not until United States v. Lanza[53]\n that the conviction in federal court of a person previously convicted in a\n state court for performing the same acts was sustained.

Dictum definitions

noun

an authoritative declaration

See also: pronouncement say-so

noun

an opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding