maxim
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In the coaching world, there is a maxim some believe in - that teams are built in the image of their coaches.
From BBC • Jun. 22, 2026
To riff off the book’s famous maxim: Some cartoons are decidedly less equal than others.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
Index funds add marginal exposure to stocks as they make relative gains, a seeming refutation of the age-old maxim to buy low, sell high.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
There is an old maxim in trade theory that says free trade is the strategy of the confident.
From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026
After much thought Snowball declared that the Seven Commandments could in effect be re- duced to a single maxim, namely: “four legs good, two legs bad.”
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
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