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motto

noun

Definition of motto

as in proverb

a short sentence or phrase that expresses a rule guiding the behavior of a particular person or group "Hope for the best and prepare for the worst" is my motto. The Scout motto is "Be prepared."

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Recent Examples of motto The 28-year-old was dressed, much like his other group members in red, black and white, pairing a cool motto jacket with sunglasses. — Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 19 July 2026 That’s Lauren Carpenter’s motto about the California State Fair’s cannabis consumption area at Cal Expo. — Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 19 July 2026 Go big or go home was clearly the motto for the 2026 FIFA World Cup’s inaugural halftime show. — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 19 July 2026 And in the Granite State, the first part of that motto almost always wins. — Scott Cohn, CNBC, 11 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for motto

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Noun

That proverb, attributed to everyone from Yogi Berra to a Danish Nobel laureate, springs to mind whenever someone asks me about an upcoming NFL season.

— Jacob Robinson, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
An ancient proverb notes that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of proverb

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Alas, poor Bryan is about to learn the hard way that change — as the saying goes — is as hard to outrun as an ever-growing zombie rat king with 37 different limbs and a weirdly personal vendetta.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 16 Sep. 2026
As the saying goes, anything is possible under the Friday Night Lights.

— Staff report, Oc Register, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of saying

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Apparently the trick is to react more to the tone and tempo of the voice, rather than necessarily the precise words.

— Nick Miller, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
The same poll found belief that data centers raise electricity bills jumped from 43% in January to nearly 60% by July—six months before Apollo or Morgan Stanley published a word of this research.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2026

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Living by a maxim that equated failure with opportunity, Brees exhibited a knack for turning tribulation into triumph.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026
The walls are robin’s-egg blue, painted with images of meditating skeletons and vaguely inspirational maxims.

— John Semley, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026

Definition of maxim

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The question fascinated David Hilbert, a renowned mathematician who had devoted much of his life to rebuilding physics on a sturdy foundation of crisp axioms.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 26 Aug. 2026
Yes, the Greeks made remarkable advances in mathematics, but mostly in geometry, which is about solid, stable objects and uses a strict hierarchy of axioms, rules, and procedures—very Platonic.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of axiom

Noun

On the other, the inconvenient truth for the big-spending Premier League that the world’s best players continue to choose Real Madrid and domestic rivals Barcelona over them.

— James Horncastle, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
That is one of many truths expressed by the films of American documentarian Robert Greene, whose work for the past couple of decades has explored the thin line between fiction and reality.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2026

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