axiom

In a sentence

Six example sentences with axiom, each labelled with its topic.

• It became an axiom of the seminar that any argument you cannot state in one sentence you do not yet hold.

  Philosophy

• The old axiom that hiring slowly beats firing quickly is repeated at every founder dinner and ignored by half the room.

  Startups

• Screenwriters repeat the axiom that you enter a scene late and leave it early, yet most still overwrite their openings.

  Movies

• Coaches repeat the axiom that defense wins championships, then spend most of practice on offensive sets anyway.

  Basketball

• The old axiom about never putting all your eggs in one basket is the whole case for a diversified portfolio.

  Finance

• Every apprentice hears the axiom that you season as you go, and every apprentice still salts the soup at the end.

  Cooking

Found in these word lists

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More Academic words

• aggregated
• stabilise
• primacy
• administratively
• globalisation
• principled
• presumptuous
• negate
• brevity
• fluctuate
• adequacy
• factoring