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technical an idea or statement that can be proved from other ideas or statements Her theorem was based on years studying the laws of physics.

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Recent Examples of theorem While writing their paper, Erdős and Szekeres discovered a theorem from the young British polymath Frank Ramsey, who had already done groundbreaking work in philosophy, economics and math by his untimely death at age 26. — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2026 Sparky interpreted the drawing, prompted him to use the Pythagorean theorem, and then asked him to form the appropriate ratio. — Ray Ravaglia, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026 Like, if the end is to predict nature, to be able to find formulas and theorems that are true, understanding may be a crutch. — Quanta Magazine, 25 June 2026 This began 50 years ago, when mathematicians used a computer to prove the four-color theorem, which asks whether any map can be colored using no more than four colors, with no adjacent regions sharing the same color. — Benjamin Skuse, IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for theorem

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The lipstick index is an economic theory holding that sales of affordable discretionary spending or luxuries skyrocket when consumers believe an economic recession is impending.

— Sarah Glodek, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2026
Yet Turing’s theory of computation wasn’t really about computers, at least not at first.

— Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2026

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Shares of CrowdStrike jumped 10% after the company delivered another beat-and-raise quarter, cementing our thesis that cybersecurity has become one of the most critical investment priorities for companies in a post-Mythos world.

— Jeff Marks, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026
Instead, the movie’s unexpected main attraction became indelible proof of its timelessly powerful thesis of acceptance.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 26 Aug. 2026

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