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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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
“Borgen” has always winked at real-life political events, and here, too, the corollaries resonate.
From New York Times ● May 26, 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
