axiom
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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
“I call it an axiom of emotions. No matter how artificial something might be, the emotions are always true.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025
As you may recall, this axiom says that any number added to itself over and over again can exceed any other number.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Mathematics is a system of symbols and accepted axioms created by human beings, which can be used as a language for describing the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 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
The new science often presented itself as a system of axioms and demonstrations, in Galileo’s Two New Sciences for example, or Newton’s Principia, but it was always grounded in facts and, less surely, in analogies.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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