axiom

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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

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

A fundamental axiom of economics is that when two individuals or countries trade, both are better off.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 6, 2025

If Ben Franklin were alive today, he might add a third certainty to his now-familiar axiom: death, taxes, and the late-summer creep of Spirit Halloween filling in vacant retail storefronts across the country.

From Slate • Oct. 10, 2024

To satisfy them, Archimedes also included a proof, based upon the accepted mathematics of the time, that relied upon the so-called axiom of Archimedes, although Archimedes himself mentioned that earlier mathematicians deserved the credit.

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