axiom

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

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

Under Lasorda’s axiom, no team wins more than two-thirds of its games.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2025

I lament that I can see no flaw in this bitter axiom.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Pathway has identified what Stamirowska calls equations of reasoning, fundamental mathematical axioms that explain how intelligence emerges from smaller, local interactions in the brain, she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 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

However, I believe there may not be any single formulation of the fundamental theory any more than, as Godel showed, one could formulate arithmetic in terms of a single set of axioms.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking