How to Use axiom in a Sentence
axiom
noun
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Here, the axioms are the rules of chess that govern legal moves.
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Sheon Han,
Quanta Magazine,
3 May 2023
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And then there are the axioms that undergird the product.
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Alexis C. Madrigal,
The Atlantic,
31 Oct. 2017
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Know that whole axiom about not needing to reinvent the wheel?
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Chris Cillizza,
CNN,
21 Oct. 2021
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A legal axiom states justice and the law are not always the same.
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Mario Nicolais,
The Denver Post,
18 May 2017
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That’s the axiom that new arrivals have been hearing for decades.
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Henry Gass,
The Christian Science Monitor,
11 Mar. 2021
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There’s an old axiom in football that games are won and lost on turnovers and big plays.
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Mike Frainie,
baltimoresun.com,
20 Nov. 2021
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An axiom is that the heavier the rifle, the more accurate the rifle.
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Ron Spomer,
Outdoor Life,
2 Nov. 2020
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While the lightning rift has turned into a cube now, the axiom remains true.
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Patricia Hernandez,
The Verge,
25 Aug. 2018
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The axiom says yes, but only one such line could exist.
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Julie Rehmeyer,
Discover Magazine,
10 Mar. 2014
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A common axiom among coaches is that much more can be learned from a loss than from a win.
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Andrew Turner,
Daily Pilot,
9 May 2017
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Entering that body of thought requires the axiom to be true.
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Andy Gole,
Forbes,
28 May 2021
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As the old axiom goes, Pakistan isn’t a state with an army but an army with a state.
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Sadanand Dhume,
WSJ,
10 Nov. 2022
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Abide by that axiom and everything else is on the table.
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Jason O'Bryan,
Robb Report,
15 Apr. 2021
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Utah followed the axiom that the best defense against a high-powered offense is to just keep the ball away.
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Matthew Coles,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Sep. 2019
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That axiom has not been true for some time – at least since Vietnam.
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Chris Stirewalt,
Fox News,
19 July 2018
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If the axiom is not correct, then all deductions are for naught.
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Razib Khan,
Discover Magazine,
10 Apr. 2012
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The aesthetic debates recall the axiom that the bitterest fights have the smallest stakes.
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Ben Kenigsberg,
New York Times,
22 Mar. 2018
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The data reinforce the axiom that there’s no such thing as bad PR.
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Randall Roberts,
latimes.com,
12 July 2019
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The data reinforce the axiom that there's no such thing as bad PR.
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Randall Roberts,
chicagotribune.com,
14 July 2019
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With the end of the Cold War, Marshall’s axiom came roaring back in full force.
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Andrew J. Bacevich,
Harper's magazine,
2 Mar. 2020
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This week, the best dressed stars proved this axiom by embracing looks that were perfectly tailored to them.
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Christian Allaire,
Vogue,
12 Feb. 2023
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And a mosaic near the entrance to the law school today includes one of his axioms, which is also an epitaph.
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Lillian Cunningham,
Washington Post,
15 Jan. 2018
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Less is More or, to observe the axiom still further, Be concise.
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Jerry Weissman,
Forbes,
3 Aug. 2022
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Live by this axiom: Buy the simple stuff, lease anything complex.
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John Pearley Huffman,
Car and Driver,
3 July 2020
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In the pandemic, that axiom looks like a flattened tin shed after a hurricane.
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Ian McEwan,
WSJ,
19 Mar. 2021
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Many senior Trump officials were foggy on the first axiom and hostile to the second.
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Robinson Meyer,
The Atlantic,
26 Jan. 2021
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But these companies are again running into that age-old axiom: space is hard.
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Jay Bennett,
Popular Mechanics,
3 Feb. 2017
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The mindless movie taps into a great military axiom: Don‘t prepare to fight the last war, prepare to fight the next one.
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Joe Pappalardo,
Popular Mechanics,
6 July 2018
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To paraphrase an old air travel axiom: What goes in must come out, one way or another.
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Avi Selk,
Washington Post,
21 May 2018
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There's an old baseball axiom about walks coming back to haunt you, especially with two outs.
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Joseph Myers,
San Antonio Express-News,
6 May 2023
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