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Vocabulary

Ipso facto

A job should be highly-paid as a high salary is ipso facto adequate to attract employees in such a materialistic world.

Is ipso facto used correctly?

  

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Ipso facto is a Latin phrase; it is not English. Latin phrases like this one are commonly used in legal contexts (because of historical precedents) and perhaps philosophical arguments and other very formal types of writing. Sometimes it is used to impress the reader and lend some sophisticated academic credibility to the text.

  • Ipso facto is a Latin phrase; it is not English.
  • Latin phrases like this one are commonly used in legal contexts (because of historical precedents) and perhaps philosophical arguments and other very formal types of writing.
  • Sometimes it is used to impress the reader and lend some sophisticated academic credibility to the text.
  • I cannot remember ever using this phrase in my life, except in my Latin class in high school.
  • The phrase is customarily set off by commas, as a parenthetical.
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Ipso facto is a Latin phrase; it is not English.

Latin phrases like this one are commonly used in legal contexts (because of historical precedents) and perhaps philosophical arguments and other very formal types of writing. Sometimes it is used to impress the reader and lend some sophisticated academic credibility to the text. I cannot remember ever using this phrase in my life, excep

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