How to Use axiomatic in a Sentence

axiomatic

adjective
  • It is axiomatic that good athletes have a strong mental attitude.
  • But any attempt to revive him in the present day was an axiomatic no-no.
    — Abraham Riesman, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The idea that subscribers all drove Volvos was just axiomatic.
    — Steve Butler, The Mercury News, 23 Mar. 2017
  • That gold tends to rally as equities slump is no longer axiomatic in these markets.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 1 June 2021
  • The car proceeds forward by the axiomatic act of being in Drive.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Logic and free will are axiomatic to any meaningful statement.
    — WSJ, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Whether a digital native is an axiomatic and bona fide digital wizard is also an open question.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 12 June 2022
  • This inverse relationship has been axiomatic for oil markets.
    — Christopher Alessi, WSJ, 29 May 2018
  • Many of those values are grounded in the idea—axiomatic for Christians—that human beings have a unique dignity and worth.
    — Elias Wachtel, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2026
  • But the brazen question remained, presenting it as axiomatic that the journalists doxxed his exact location when none of them did.
    — WIRED, 19 Jan. 2023
  • With self-driving cars, there won’t be any need for a human driver and therefore no longer an axiomatic need for an adult in the autonomous vehicle.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
  • This insight is sort of nihilism lite, and a handy, if somewhat axiomatic, mantra for navigating the inanity of everyday life.
    — Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Self-preservation would seem to be the axiomatic approach for any nearby observing animals.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Others believed that the immutability of the blockchain was axiomatic; by that logic, the record—theft and all—should never be manipulated.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, WIRED, 18 June 2018
  • That there would be no English literary tradition without Greek and Latin is almost axiomatic.
    — Ange Mlinko, The New York Review of Books, 23 July 2020
  • Today, the assessment that a major cyber attack poses a threat to financial stability is axiomatic— not a question of if, but when.
    — CNN, 14 Mar. 2021
  • But the interpretation of that axiomatic truth often reflects deep confusion about teachers and their profession.
    — Kenan Jaffe, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2018
  • These black and white photos harken back to a period in time in which vaccines were almost uniformly viewed as an axiomatic good, a lifesaving elixir that millions of people clamored for access to.
    — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2013
  • Smith is likened to Honest Abe, the humble rail-splitter who overturned the slave power by announcing the axiomatic truth of human equality.
    — Samuel Goldman, Star Tribune, 31 Mar. 2021
  • This is the axiomatic difference that explains why for-profit educational companies so often fail.
    — New York Times, 14 July 2017
  • It’s been axiomatic from time to time, for decades now, that the United States is in decline, and that somebody else—most recently, China—is the ascendant power.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025
  • So — just as August follows July — Republicans should accept the Left’s incoming fire as axiomatic and then just do the right thing.
    — Deroy Murdock, National Review, 10 July 2017
  • Statements tend to be axiomatic rather than descriptive of particular individuals.
    — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 10 June 2026
  • Just a few years after the arrival of ZF, Kurt Gödel showed that no axiomatic system capable of basic arithmetic can be used to prove its own consistency.
    — Quanta Magazine, 29 Apr. 2026
  • That axiomatic Hollywood principle, action is character, takes a strange turn in All the President’s Men.
    — Mark Feeney, Slate Magazine, 14 June 2017
  • Macías was believed by Spain to be so weak and ineffectual that future economic benefits for Spain, even after independence, would be axiomatic.
    — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Since the only point of using budget reconciliation was to enable Republicans not to work with Democrats, the requirement was axiomatic.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Dec. 2017
  • This ought to be axiomatic to anyone with even a rudimentary conception of American constitutionalism.
    — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
  • That Menorcans take lobster—a classic plutocratic ingredient—and turn it into a relatively homely but delicious stew seems axiomatic of the island.
    — James Collard, Robb Report, 25 July 2021
  • Euclid’s geometry, the epitome of logical reasoning, is based on no fewer than 33 axiomatic, unprovable articles of faith.
    — Michael Guillen, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2021

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