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Definition
something that follows from something else — such as a logical or practical consequence- The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine prevented European interventions in the Caribbean.
- He loved her and by corollary the children she loved.
- A corollary of the highest importance may be deduced from the foregoing remarks,Charles Darwin -- The Origin of Species
- if people are to quarrel often, it follows as a corollary that their quarrels cannot be protracted beyond certain limits.George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss
- The corollary to all these trends is a fashion for political correctness, a certain bending-over-backward not to offend.Robert MacNeil and William Crane -- Do You Speak American?
- Within three minutes, there were 201 photos posted, most of them close corollaries to the face of Fiona Highbridge.Dave Eggers -- The Circle
- The corollary of the causeless in matter is the unearned in spirit.Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
- What inchoate corollary statement was consequently suppressed by the host?James Joyce -- Ulysses
- I had the strong impression that he had long been asking himself that question and all its corollaries.Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
- — Now come, my Ariel! bring a corollary, Rather than want a spirit: appear, and pertly.William Shakespeare -- The Tempest
- As an old teacher I can hardly refrain from classroom habits; the corollary should be left as an exercise for the student.Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
- As a corollary to this belief, he supposed that if he gave in to the Queen he would lose his tenfold might.T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
- Her thoughts went to birth's corollary: death.Betty Smith -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- For us, such struggles—for sunglasses, long trousers, study privileges, equalized food—were corollaries to the struggle we waged outside prison.Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
- The partition of Poland is a theorem of which all present political outrages are the corollaries.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- This leads us to a corollary of astronomical importance: to the unconditional acceptance of the premise that 'absence' is superior to 'presence.'Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
- I know the three laws and the fourteen corollaries.Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
- And he believed the obvious corollary: The greater a man's fear, the greater his potential courage.Tim O'Brien -- Going After Cacciato
- The high rate of turnover had the corollary benefit of keeping to a minimum the number of individuals who understood the building's secrets.Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
- Whenever I read a new work, I spin the mental Rolodex looking for correspondences and corollaries—where have I seen his face, don't I know that theme?Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor