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truism

[troo-iz-uhm] / ˈtru ɪz əm /


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This, like so much of the popular understanding of 15th- and 16th-century Florence, is one of those truisms so often repeated as to become banal.

From The Wall Street Journal

It is a truism that markets are forward-looking—and on a day when the Federal Reserve will dominate headlines, investors may instead want to pay attention to 2026.

From Barron's

It is a truism that markets are forward-looking—and on a day when the Federal Reserve will dominate headlines, investors may instead want to pay attention to 2026.

From Barron's

It has become a tech-industry truism: Spending too little on chips and other computing infrastructure for artificial intelligence is riskier than spending too much.

From The Wall Street Journal

The mayor seems not to have heard of the truism that if you tax something you get less of it.

From The Wall Street Journal