axiom

Extensive research confirms the axiom that a sense of civic duty is the strongest predictor of whether someone will vote.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

It is a well-established baseball axiom that after 1,000 plate appearances, you are what your statistics say you are.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

For a decade, the global luxury industry operated on a simple axiom: As China goes, so goes the bottom line.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 27, 2026

“I call it an axiom of emotions. No matter how artificial something might be, the emotions are always true.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025

But the axiom of Archimedes rejected zero, which is the bridge between the realms of the finite and the infinite, a bridge that is absolutely necessary for calculus and higher mathematics.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Mathematics is a system of symbols and accepted axioms created by human beings, which can be used as a language for describing the world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

Their mathematics and geometry, built on logical proofs from axioms, remain eternal.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2025

One of the key axioms of politics in our, and any other, era is that nothing lasts forever.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2025

“One of the axioms of the system of international relations is that such a system is intrinsically anarchic.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2023

One of the most commonly used books in high school geometry classes makes use of more than a hundred axioms to prove a similar number of theorems!

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos