adage

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Recent Examples of adage There is an old baseball adage that says hitting is contagious. Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2025 Often with hair products, the adage holds: Less is more. Megan Decker, Refinery29, 21 May 2025 That adage was put to the test for much of Monday’s game at Kauffman Stadium, where the Royals lost 7-4 to the Reds. Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 26 May 2025 As the adage goes, one person’s trash is another person’s treasure, right? Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for adage
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Noun
  • Nobody plots against anyone, but nobody invokes ancient proverbs, either.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
  • As the Chinese proverb suggests, U.S. tariffs aimed at Beijing have tested diplomacy and strategy between the two largest world economies.
    Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • There’s a saying that an organized lie is stronger than the disorganized truth.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 17 June 2025
  • As the saying goes, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
    James Blake, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • That word first exploded onto the scene in World War II Britain as Royal Air Force slang for a bomb of enough penetrating power to shatterwhole blocks of homes and pavements.
    Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2025
  • More important would be whether China and Russia took any stronger action against the United States beyond words.
    Matthew Tostevin Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 June 2025
Noun
  • La Fontaine’s focus on animals and penchant for moral maxims must have immediately attracted her.
    Susan Gubar June 9, Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
  • For all the screenwriting manuals and maxims that insist on character goals and motivations and missions and all those things we’re supposed to have in real life too, there can be something riveting about a character with no plan at all.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 15 Feb. 2025

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