axiom
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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
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
It’s an axiom of criminal law that jurors should assess guilt or innocence based on the defendant’s conduct in the case before them.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 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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