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.

From The Wall Street Journal

At Loyola High he absorbed the Jesuit maxim of being a man for others.

From Los Angeles Times

Which suggests that when it comes to image-making in court, “know your audience” is as much a legal maxim as a Hollywood one.

From New York Times

With that in mind, on this trip Sir Keir appears to have adopted the doctor's maxim: first, do no harm.

From BBC

But it was another maxim from his grandfather that may have helped him succeed amid the bitterness and divisiveness of his campaigns.

From New York Times