How to Use axiom in a Sentence

axiom

noun
  • These truths are the axioms, the ground rules.
    — Quanta Magazine, 29 Apr. 2026
  • But even that axiom doesn’t always hold.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 27 Jan. 2026
  • There’s an old axiom in football that games are won and lost on turnovers and big plays.
    — Mike Frainie, baltimoresun.com, 20 Nov. 2021
  • The old axiom is that 90% of a tree’s roots are in the top foot of soil.
    — Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 June 2024
  • Know that whole axiom about not needing to reinvent the wheel?
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Here, the axioms are the rules of chess that govern legal moves.
    — Sheon Han, Quanta Magazine, 3 May 2023
  • That axiom has not been true for some time – at least since Vietnam.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 19 July 2018
  • That’s the axiom that new arrivals have been hearing for decades.
    — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Mar. 2021
  • As the old axiom goes, Pakistan isn’t a state with an army but an army with a state.
    — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
  • While the lightning rift has turned into a cube now, the axiom remains true.
    — Patricia Hernandez, The Verge, 25 Aug. 2018
  • If the axiom is not correct, then all deductions are for naught.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 10 Apr. 2012
  • Reese merely flipped that axiom on its head by asking to be coached harder.
    — Sabreena Merchant, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Anyway, back to my proffered axiom.
    — Oc Register, 19 Apr. 2026
  • The axioms of economics are no different now than in his day.
    — Christopher Eric Bouchat, Baltimore Sun, 17 May 2024
  • Those who forget history, the old axiom posits, are doomed to repeat it.
    — Ilan Berman, Foreign Affairs, 24 Apr. 2016
  • Sure, the disk world’s physical laws seem ad hoc, but so are Euclid’s axioms.
    — Quanta Magazine, 30 July 2024
  • So people have already put in the work to get from the axioms to a reasonably high level.
    — Christoph Drösser, Scientific American, 8 June 2024
  • The data reinforce the axiom that there's no such thing as bad PR.
    — Randall Roberts, chicagotribune.com, 14 July 2019
  • The data reinforce the axiom that there’s no such thing as bad PR.
    — Randall Roberts, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
  • An axiom is that the heavier the rifle, the more accurate the rifle.
    — Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life, 2 Nov. 2020
  • So most of us work with the same 10 axioms, a system called ZFC.
    — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Less is More or, to observe the axiom still further, Be concise.
    — Jerry Weissman, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
  • With the end of the Cold War, Marshall’s axiom came roaring back in full force.
    — Andrew J. Bacevich, Harper's magazine, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Moreover, the axioms should be intuitive.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 26 May 2026
  • The axiom is undoubtably unfair, but women don't have to see it as a burden, Kunst says.
    — Fortune, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Since the Civil War, this axiom has been avoided only a handful of times.
    — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025
  • These shows were built around heady concepts like a sequence, an axiom or the work of Pablo Picasso.
    — Heather Bushman, IndyStar, 17 Nov. 2025
  • There is a lot of axiomatics, which seems to be closer to the Greeks, but aren’t the axioms largely chosen at will?
    — Simone Weil, Harper's Magazine, 2 July 2024
  • There is a lot of axiomatics, which seems to be closer to the Greeks, but aren’t the axioms largely chosen at will?
    — Simone Weil, Harper's Magazine, 2 July 2024
  • The old axiom about every $10 spike in the price of oil leading to a pullback in economic growth may no longer be the case.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 3 Mar. 2022

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