How to Use axiomatic in a Sentence

axiomatic

adjective

• It is axiomatic that good athletes have a strong mental attitude.
• The idea that subscribers all drove Volvos was just axiomatic.
  — Steve Butler, The Mercury News, 23 Mar. 2017
• But any attempt to revive him in the present day was an axiomatic no-no.
  — Abraham Riesman, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2021
• The car proceeds forward by the axiomatic act of being in Drive.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
• That gold tends to rally as equities slump is no longer axiomatic in these markets.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 1 June 2021
• Logic and free will are axiomatic to any meaningful statement.
  — WSJ, 15 Aug. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Whether a digital native is an axiomatic and bona fide digital wizard is also an open question.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 12 June 2022
• 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
• That axiomatic Hollywood principle, action is character, takes a strange turn in All the President’s Men.
  — Mark Feeney, Slate Magazine, 14 June 2017
• Self-preservation would seem to be the axiomatic approach for any nearby observing animals.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
• 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
• That's proved axiomatic during the coronavirus outbreak.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2020
• Plain and axiomatic as the real medical causes now seem to us, the majority view, from the ancient Romans to the Edwardian Celts, was intensely superstitious.
  — Longreads, 9 June 2018
• This inverse relationship has been axiomatic for oil markets.
  — Christopher Alessi, WSJ, 29 May 2018
• The axiomatic truth of politics in the 2020s, the obstructive reality nobody can seem to get around, is that Americans are divided evenly on nearly everything.
  — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2022
• 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
• It’s been axiomatic for a long time to view the collective trauma and madness of the First World War as faithfully reflected in the broken consciousness and fragmentary compulsions of the first generation of literary modernists.
  — Thomas Meaney, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
• But the interpretation of that axiomatic truth often reflects deep confusion about teachers and their profession.
  — Kenan Jaffe, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2018
• This is the axiomatic difference that explains why for-profit educational companies so often fail.
  — New York Times, 14 July 2017
• 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
• Several researchers working on reconstructions now hope that its axiomatic approach will help us see how to pose quantum theory in a way that forges a connection with the modern theory of gravitation — Einstein’s general relativity.
  — Quanta Magazine, 30 Aug. 2017
• Mathematical logic was developed with the hope of placing mathematics on firm foundations — as an axiomatic system, free of contradiction, that could keep reasoning from slipping into incoherence.
  — Quanta Magazine, 3 June 2019

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024