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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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That’s a corollary of knowing where his feet are.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

That age-old venture principle has an uncomfortable corollary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Fair enough, but the corollary of that case is that the platform Bluesky exists to counter, X, is somehow a more authentic representation of the world.

From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026

The corollary is lower sales, thinner margins and smaller corporate profits.

From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026

And a nogas regulation would have the corollary benefit of automatically reducing trash and crowding because considerably fewer people would attempt Everest if they knew supplemental oxygen was not an option.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

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

“The law embodies the story of a nation’s development through many centuries,” he wrote, “and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2022

That statement might have been the high water mark of scientism and its corollaries, materialism and reductionism.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 7, 2019

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




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