general truth

Example Sentences

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Human beings are outliers: we live much longer than other creatures of our size, defying the general truth that smaller animals live shorter lives than bigger ones.

From The New Yorker • May 13, 2019

The scene demonstrates a general truth, namely that when Hollywood does maths, it doesn’t necessarily add up.

From The Guardian • Apr. 6, 2016

And it is a general truth that the longer the duration of a shock, the greater its effects.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

That story exemplifies the general truth about mandatory disclosure: it entails vastly more cost than benefit.

From Forbes • Sep. 8, 2014

There was no "extraordinary way" in which our incalculable kinsman mightn't talk, and that William should have had for the hour the benefit of his general truth is but a happy note in my record.

From Notes of a Son and Brother by James, Henry