maxim
Example Sentences
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There’s a maxim, growing more potent every day, that AI won’t take your job, but someone using AI might.
At Loyola High he absorbed the Jesuit maxim of being a man for others.
From Los Angeles Times
“I’d say the old maxim is true. What do your friends look like? Look in a mirror. What they look like is you,” he said.
From Salon
“History doesn’t repeat itself,” the maxim maintains, “but it rhymes.”
From Salon
The battleship and the maxim gun, not the English countryside, empowered the Victorian imperialists.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
