as in proverb
an often stated observation regarding something from common experience
that old adage, "the early bird gets the worm"
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Recent Examples of adage
The lyrics echo the adage that the divorce happens long before the divorce.
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Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2024
The adage of an empire on which the sun never sets still applies to the French Republic, with small possessions across the planet.
—Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 9 Oct. 2024
The adage is true: Put on your own oxygen mask first.
—Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 26 Oct. 2024
The old adage that productivity plummets as hours accumulate is well known.
—Curt Steinhorst, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
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Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2024
The adage of an empire on which the sun never sets still applies to the French Republic, with small possessions across the planet.
—Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 9 Oct. 2024
The adage is true: Put on your own oxygen mask first.
—Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 26 Oct. 2024
The old adage that productivity plummets as hours accumulate is well known.
—Curt Steinhorst, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for adage
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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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Each pair of shoes has a script with a Swahili proverb or saying.Erinne Magee, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Nov. 2024
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The saying may as well apply to the form of the bio-musical itself.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 11 Nov. 2024
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This is the most famous folklore predictor and there are many sayings about woolly worms.Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 1 Nov. 2024
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Get our free daily crossword puzzle, sudoku, word search and arcade games.Alyssa Bereznak, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
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From ‘no word for art’ to one of Indian Country’s biggest industries At the Heard Museum in Phoenix last March, artists unloaded beadwork and baskets, paintings, pottery and photography, jewelry, stone and wood sculptures, textiles and delicate works in glass.Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
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There is an emerging maxim that the only liberal Harris skeptics are the terminally online.Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
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Seems silly to say it that way, but that maxim helps describe some of the ways that power and contact interact in the game of baseball.Eno Sarris, The Athletic, 16 Apr. 2024
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“Adage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adage. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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