axiom

Example Sentences

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The old axiom is to be greedy when others are fearful.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

It’s like that axiom in football, about practicing something over and over, so in that flash of a moment your body knows what to do even if your brain hasn’t caught up:

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026

For a decade, the global luxury industry operated on a simple axiom: As China goes, so goes the bottom line.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 27, 2026

If Ben Franklin were alive today, he might add a third certainty to his now-familiar axiom: death, taxes, and the late-summer creep of Spirit Halloween filling in vacant retail storefronts across the country.

From Slate • Oct. 10, 2024

This violates a basic principle of numbers called the axiom of Archimedes, which says that if you add something to itself enough times, it will exceed any other number in magnitude.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife