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axiom

[ak-see-uhm] / ˈæk si əm /


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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

Under Lasorda’s axiom, no team wins more than two-thirds of its games.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 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

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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