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How to Use maxim in a Sentence

maxim

noun
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  • That maxim is proven once again in a two-minute video shared by the .
    — Melissa Locker, Time, 3 Mar. 2020
  • On the strategic side, two maxims stand out above the rest.
    — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 6 July 2019
  • But a beetle the size of a grain of sand flips this maxim on its head.
    — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 21 Mar. 2022
  • After all, as the old maxim goes, the best cure for high prices is high prices.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 23 Oct. 2023
  • So in this new-age era of AI, the old maxim still applies: Garbage in, garbage out.
    — Barb Darrow, Fortune, 18 July 2017
  • One of his maxims is that managers should not aim to be liked.
    — Bylila MacLellan, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2023
  • All the stories stress the maxim that our species must adapt or perish.
    — Washington Post, 10 May 2021
  • This maxim was quoted on the arrest of Richard II in 1399.
    — Alex Story, National Review, 4 Dec. 2021
  • Quintero said his tech skills are proof enough of the maxim that old dogs can learn new tricks.
    — Ambar Castillo, STAT, 24 Mar. 2023
  • So why not give the pod a listen and the maxim a try to boost your summer’s success rate?
    — Pablo Goldstein, Vulture, 1 July 2021
  • The players just need to follow a simple maxim: Do what Tom Brady says.
    — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2023
  • There's simply no such thing as too many red dresses. Leave it to Jennifer Lopez to put that maxim to the test.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The Clippers, who have struggled to close out games for most of April, have followed the coaching maxim of bend, don’t break.
    — Bill Oram, Orange County Register, 12 Apr. 2017
  • One other thing: There’s an old maxim that for greatness to emerge, there must be a crisis.
    — George Skelton, latimes.com, 24 June 2019
  • This was the maxim that guided the design process for Oliver's apartment.
    — Mackenzie Schmidt, PEOPLE.com, 12 July 2022
  • In the mid-Nineties, fast ten, slow twenty seemed like a maxim to help me eke out some autonomy.
    — Mitchell S. Jackson, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
  • Chinos One of the maxims in menswear is that chinos are really just beat-up khakis.
    — Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 6 Mar. 2023
  • But the old maxim has taken on a new and more plausible form today.
    — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2021
  • One maxim of constitutional law is that what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
    — Cristian Farias, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Upon hearing this, a certain basketball maxim came to mind: the best teams get the most bang for their buck.
    — Mat Issa, Forbes, 2 June 2022
  • But the now eight-year-old maxim has its serious downsides.
    — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 30 June 2019
  • Statham doesn't speak in much of it, in a movie that operates under the maxim leave no bullet unfired.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 6 May 2021
  • The Saints and other teams are about to put that maxim to the test, but in the case of Bridgewater and Brissett, there seems to be a path to sustainable success.
    — John Clayton, The Denver Post, 24 Sep. 2019
  • An old legal maxim comes to mind: De minimis non curat lex — the law doesn’t care about trifles.
    — New York Times, 14 Jan. 2020
  • In financial terms, Hume’s work lay behind the maxim that past performance is not a guide to the future.
    — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 June 2023
  • War of the Chosen, the game's first and likely last full expansion, deals with that problem with a simple maxim: more is more.
    — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 6 Sep. 2017
  • So ingrained is this maxim that most lay people can recite it.
    — Danny Cevallos, CNN, 8 June 2017
  • There’s a maxim here that dentists follow, an immutable rule of numb: Make sure that your laughter is louder than the sound of your drill.
    — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 12 July 2023
  • But Charlie never tired of repeating his maxims about business and investing to me, and his logic was irrefutable.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2023
  • There was a maxim in cryptography, often referred to as Schneier’s law after the cryptographer Bruce Schneier.
    — Andy Greenberg, Ars Technica, 18 Jan. 2024

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