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[ UK /kəɹˈɒləɹi/ ]
[ US /ˈkɔɹəˌɫɛɹi/ ]
NOUN
  1. a practical consequence that follows naturally
    blind jealousy is a frequent corollary of passionate love
  2. (logic) an inference that follows directly from the proof of another proposition

How To Use corollary In A Sentence

  • The second version occurs as Corollary 2 to Proposition 7 and was thought of as a method of expanding solutions of fluxional equations in infinite series.
  • A corollary to Godwin's Law, and as much of a thread quasher, must be hyperbolic reference to Mandela, Apartheid or the effectiveness / appropriateness of the anti-apartheid movement. Newmatilda.com - Comments
  • A corollary to this is that if you can get the little things right then you are much, much more likely to get the big things right.
  • Of course, a basic corollary of the theory is that deep drilling should uncover a portion of these massive methane resources.
  • But we are all intensely aware of the fact that work and its corollary, employment, are essential requisites for most people to be able to live in dignity with at least a minimum of comfort and security.
  • The corollary of that is that a higher proportion of their income is spent on tobacco products.
  • As a corollary to their sequestration, the sisters have developed a kind of incantatory and interchangeable speech, often speaking in unison.
  • In rural areas, the corollary of increased car ownership has been a rapid decline in the provision of public transport.
  • However, by corollary, the husband had a reciprocal duty to provide a home for the wife to live in with him, so long as she did not commit a matrimonial offence (such as adultery).
  • The title article calls for “retrenchment” in the “humanitarian missions” abroad that are consuming the country’s wealth, so as to arrest the American decline that is a major theme of international affairs discourse, usually accompanied by the corollary that power is shifting to the East, to China and maybe India. Noam Chomsky: "Losing" the World
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