axiom

Once that axiom is treated as constitutional common sense, public safety appears already on the side of the enforcement vehicle.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

There is an old military axiom: The enemy gets a vote too.

From Salon ● Jul. 14, 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

It’s like that axiom in football, about practicing something over and over, so in that flash of a moment your body knows what to do even if your brain hasn’t caught up:

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026

This violates a basic principle of numbers called the axiom of Archimedes, which says that if you add something to itself enough times, it will exceed any other number in magnitude.

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

But the math professor who’s now working for a math startup did share one of his own axioms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

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

With so many axioms, all the theorems are surface ones requiring only three or four steps to prove; none has any depth.

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