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

There’s an axiom in football that if your quarterback isn’t the toughest guy on your team, you’re in trouble.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025

This was an axiom in videogames, and would be until humans invented true artificial intelligence.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

Pathway has identified what Stamirowska calls equations of reasoning, fundamental mathematical axioms that explain how intelligence emerges from smaller, local interactions in the brain, she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 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

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