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

The old maxim “Buy low, sell high” has a cash-flow corollary: “Collect early, pay late.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 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

He knew, for example, that it was called paramnesia, and he was interested as well in such corollary optical phenomena as jamais vu, never seen, and presque vu, almost seen.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller