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theorem

[thee-er-uhm, theer-uhm] / ˈθi ər əm, ˈθɪər əm /


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It may be hard to think of Nixon as a moral president or to reduce Reagan to such a simplistic theorem, but Mr. Westad’s point is vitally true in the sense that he means it.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

These included the most precise test of general relativity to date and confirmation of Stephen Hawking's black hole area theorem.

From Science Daily Jul. 2, 2026

AI can’t sit with a student after class and talk through a complex theorem until the child finally gets it.

From MarketWatch Mar. 9, 2026

The theorem that online anonymity breeds rude behavior was commonplace well before Black’s parents paid Ark Music Factory a few thousand dollars to craft a song and music video for their daughter to record.

From Salon Feb. 16, 2026

Here the theorem provides the theoretical support for the fact that the measurements of any quantity tend to follow a normal bell-shaped “error curve” centered on the true value of the quantity being measured.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

“He was a war hero and a Renaissance man that did math theorems while he was in Congress and who could recite Homer from memory,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 6, 2025

Participants worked through undergraduate-level mathematical theorems with the assistance of an LLM and were asked to rate each individual LLM response for correctness and helpfulness.

From Science Daily Jun. 4, 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

Rambling conversations on aliens and math theorems, time travel and TED talks, contribute to an atmosphere in which everything feels unstable, not least the men’s sanity.

From New York Times Nov. 3, 2022

Suddenly I was using the advanced theorems and skills I’d learned from Dr. Evans and Dr. Claytor.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson




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