general truth

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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

It was characteristic of him to feel, as he did, that it was "almost useless" to endeavour to prove the general truth of evolution, unless the cause of change could be discovered.

From Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters by Darwin, Charles