axiom

There is an old military axiom: The enemy gets a vote too.

From Salon ● Jul. 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

A fundamental axiom of economics is that when two individuals or countries trade, both are better off.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025

“I call it an axiom of emotions. No matter how artificial something might be, the emotions are always true.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025

I lament that I can see no flaw in this bitter axiom.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

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

With so many axioms, all the theorems are surface ones requiring only three or four steps to prove; none has any depth.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos