as in proverb
an often stated observation regarding something from common experience
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Recent Examples of aphorism
Hong’s characters deliver sharp dialogue that blends piercing confessions and resonant aphorisms, and his lyrical cinematography, encompassing many sequences of nature (including scenes indeed set by the stream), makes all the world their stage.
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Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2024
Despentes offers no quarter to her titular hero, whose dark wit and casually racist rants come at the reader in a mad rush of metaphors and aphorisms, Despentes’s gutter vernacular of the underclass.
—Marc Weingarten, The Atlantic, 23 Sep. 2024
Such revelations, which Jensen calls aphorisms, get recorded during each voyager’s trip in a living book of people’s Scripture.
—Cassady Rosenblum, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2024
Over the course of several interviews that took place at Sequoia’s Menlo Park headquarters, a library in Burlingame, and at his Hillsborough home, Botha kept returning to the ultimate sports aphorism.
—Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 25 July 2024
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Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2024
Despentes offers no quarter to her titular hero, whose dark wit and casually racist rants come at the reader in a mad rush of metaphors and aphorisms, Despentes’s gutter vernacular of the underclass.
—Marc Weingarten, The Atlantic, 23 Sep. 2024
Such revelations, which Jensen calls aphorisms, get recorded during each voyager’s trip in a living book of people’s Scripture.
—Cassady Rosenblum, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2024
Over the course of several interviews that took place at Sequoia’s Menlo Park headquarters, a library in Burlingame, and at his Hillsborough home, Botha kept returning to the ultimate sports aphorism.
—Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 25 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aphorism
Noun
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To paraphrase an old proverb, the best time to connect the fights for trans and reproductive rights was decades ago.Colleen Hamilton, Them, 4 Dec. 2024
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This brings up the proverb of wanting to have your cake and eat it too.Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
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What Team Northeast's saying: Philly's too hard-edge to be anything but Northeast.Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 11 Dec. 2024
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There’s a saying that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
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Corcoran delivered his final words before taking his last breath.Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
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As households witnessed their utility bills drop—sometimes by nearly 90% according to Miller—word spread that the people going door to door were here to help.Marina Lopes, TIME, 18 Dec. 2024
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The big-picture, keep-it-simple characteristics of this market moment are easy enough to recite like self-help maxims: Inflation continues to retreat more quickly than the economy has slowed.Michael Santoli, CNBC, 12 Oct. 2024
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Here is another useful maxim: Sometimes less is more.Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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“Aphorism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aphorism. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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