maxim
Example Sentences
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Inside the company, Beccari’s favorite maxims quickly began to circulate: “If you have everything under control, you’re not going fast enough,” and “Victory is not important. It’s the only thing that counts.”
Similar to the popular business maxim about being better, faster and cheaper, you must “pick two.”
Although sophomoric, especially for a graduate student, I thought it showed, if not a deep understanding, at least a somewhat clever analysis of his famous maxims.
There’s a maxim, growing more potent every day, that AI won’t take your job, but someone using AI might.
At Loyola High he absorbed the Jesuit maxim of being a man for others.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
