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axiom

[ak-see-uhm] / ˈæk si əm /


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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

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

But lately I’ve been worried that the glut of documentary content required to fill the yawning maw of streamers is putting this axiom to the test more frequently.

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2024

With the feeling that he was speaking to O’Brien, and also that he was setting forth an important axiom, he wrote: Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.

From "1984" by George Orwell




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