Sample Sentences foraxiom (auto-selected)
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This was an axiom in videogames, and would be until humans invented true artificial intelligence.† (source)
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It's a very old axiom, but do you believe the end can justify the means?† (source)
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Axiom: the best place to conserve your water is in your body.† (source)
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You know, Scarlett, money ill come by never comes to good and this house is proof of the axiom.† (source)
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With the feeling that he was speaking to O'Brien, and also that he was setting forth an important axiom, he wrote: Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.† (source)
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Moreover, as the ground thawed, his route turned into a gauntlet of boggy muskeg and impenetrable alder, and McCandless belatedly came to appreciate one of the fundamental (if counterintuitive) axioms of the North: winter, not summer, is the preferred season for traveling overland through the bush.† (source)
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I always remember the regent's axiom: a leader, hesaid, is like a shepherd.† (source)
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Unfazed, I presented my revelation that in the principles and theorems and axioms of plane geometry—these truths that stayed true across the universe—God had sent us a message.† (source)
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Money rests on the axiom that every man is the owner of his mind and his effort.† (source)
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The idea of "order from chaos" was one of the great Masonic axioms.† (source)
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"All roads lead to Amber," he said, as though it were an axiom.† (source)
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Even in the matter of the species...Well, the two axioms of Darwinian theory—the continuity of nature and adaptable design—have never been validated by a single empirical discovery in nearly a hundred and fifty years.† (source)
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It became an axiom for me.† (source)
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The literal digestion of these instructions resulted in one of the most fantastical exhibitions of print-vending ever seen: fortified by his own unlimited cheek, and by the pious axioms of the exhortations that "the good salesman will never take no for his answer," that he should "stick to his prospect" even if rebuffed, that he should "try to get the customer's psychology," the boy would fall into step with an unsuspecting pedestrian, open the broad sheets of The Post under the man's nose, and in a torrential harangue, sown thickly with stuttering speech, buffoonery, and ingratiation, delivered so rapidly that the man could neither accept nor reject the magazine, hound him before a grinning† (source)
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It had long been sought in vain, he said, to demonstrate the axiom known as Euclid's fifth postulate and this search was the start of the crisis.† (source)
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The axioms of the few are shared by the many; the latter believe superstitiously what the former believe soberly.† (source)
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