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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

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

Indeed, like “Poor Richard,” whom Franklin invented as the author of his bestselling annual “Almanack,” the fictional Spaniard had a talent for axioms derived from observation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026

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

One of the most commonly used books in high school geometry classes makes use of more than a hundred axioms to prove a similar number of theorems!

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