adage

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The coming year is the only one of the next four where stock investors should seriously consider following the old Wall Street adage: “Sell in May and go away.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 13, 2026

There’s an adage among faster players that you don’t have to play well to play quickly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

Penn Mutual Managing Director Scott Ellis says that policymakers remain “at the top of our watch list…the old adage that ‘markets stop panicking when policymakers start to’ still seems to resonate.”

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

But there are definitely moments where it feels like an editor could have helped her avoid violating that old writing adage of “show, don’t tell.”

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

Starkey referred to the adage ‘Hear the other side’, a fundamental principle of natural justice, as ‘hateful’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton