axiom
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Once that axiom is treated as constitutional common sense, public safety appears already on the side of the enforcement vehicle.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
There is an old military axiom: The enemy gets a vote too.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026
The old axiom is to be greedy when others are fearful.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 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
This was an axiom in videogames, and would be until humans invented true artificial intelligence.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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But the math professor who’s now working for a math startup did share one of his own axioms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
Their mathematics and geometry, built on logical proofs from axioms, remain eternal.
From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2025
One of the key axioms of politics in our, and any other, era is that nothing lasts forever.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2025
“One of the axioms of the system of international relations is that such a system is intrinsically anarchic.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
From them, it should be possible to derive a complete system of knowledge embracing every aspect of the natural world, just as one can deduce the whole of Euclidean geometry from five axioms.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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