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corollary

[kawr-uh-ler-ee, kor-, kuh-rol-uh-ree] / ˈkɔr əˌlɛr i, ˈkɒr-, kəˈrɒl ə ri /


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Appeared in the December 9, 2025, print edition as 'Introducing the ‘Trump Corollary’'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

Corollary to the “monster,” more passive, is the “stain”: some ugliness coloring someone’s life that you don’t want to know, that nonetheless spreads and can ruin perception of his or her work.

From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2023

Corollary: is that the barometer of a successful season?

From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2022

In the first quarter of the twentieth century, that Roosevelt Corollary would be used to justify U.S. occupations of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Nicaragua.

From Salon • Jan. 28, 2021

Corollary I.- Envy, derision, contempt, anger, revenge, and other emotions attributable to hatred, or arising therefrom, are bad; this is evident from III:xxxix. and IV:xxxvii.

From Ethics — Part 4 by Elwes, R. H. M. (Robert Harvey Monro)




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