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corollary

[kawr-uh-ler-ee, kor-, kuh-rol-uh-ree] / ˈkɔr əˌlɛr i, ˈkɒr-, kəˈrɒl ə ri /


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That’s a corollary of knowing where his feet are.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

That age-old venture principle has an uncomfortable corollary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Fair enough, but the corollary of that case is that the platform Bluesky exists to counter, X, is somehow a more authentic representation of the world.

From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026

Saudi Aramco is the lone historical corollary for IPOs of that size.

From Barron's ● May 22, 2026

For this was what he’d vowed as a corollary of his main aim — to study until he could see the pylons of the Golden Gate Bridge.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

There are clear corollaries between then and now.

From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026

While there are many corollaries, “Girls State” is, in compelling and illuminating ways, not a twin to “Boys State.”

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 3, 2024

As a result, mathematicians tended to keep their discoveries to themselves, deploying their theorems, corollaries and lemmas only to win intellectual battles.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 24, 2023

Godwin, who recently staged another “Much Ado,” set on the Italian Riviera, for London’s National Theatre, doubles down here on the farcical corollaries in the laws of attraction.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2022

For us, such struggles — for sunglasses, long trousers, study privileges, equalized food — were corollaries to the struggle we waged outside prison.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela


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