corollary

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The corollary is lower sales, thinner margins and smaller corporate profits.

From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026

A corollary of Erb’s investment lesson is that when an asset that previously deviated from fair value eventually returns towards fair value, there is no guarantee that it will stop once it gets there.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 10, 2026

Instead of don’t trust the experts … which, fair enough … they move to trust the non-experts, which is not the logical corollary, but that is where you move.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

Just to put my Captain Obvious pants on for a minute, the corollary to everything you just said is that he’s also decided he’s going to tell us what the truth is, right?

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2025

In Washington’s case, the most obvious corollary to his view of American national interest was the avoidance of a major war during the gestative phase of national development.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis