corollary
noun
a proposition that is incidentally proved in proving another proposition.
corollaries
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pluralof corollary.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The closest corollaries might be data center REITs like Equinix —though Equinix owns the data centers themselves, not the power equipment, and has a 2.4% dividend yield.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2025
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
Smartly — because Park is very smart — the play is content to absorb the themes of “Macbeth” without providing corollaries for each of its plot points.
From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 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
