How to Use theorem in a Sentence

theorem

noun

• Here, the polygon angle sum theorem is a good place to start.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 Nov. 2020
• This was enough to prove the four color theorem, but getting there was not easy.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2017
• Their no-go theorem would then imply that at least one of the assumptions must be wrong.
  — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
• The linebacker corps alone bends the mind like the Pythagorean theorem.
  — Larry Holder, NOLA.com, 23 May 2017
• Someone proved the theorem for lengths of 1 and 2, then someone else proved it for 3.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 19 Mar. 2020
• Then Ijjas found a bounce mechanism that evades the no-go theorem.
  — Quanta Magazine, 31 Jan. 2018
• Its shadow will at most stick out just a tiny bit past the first shadow, so the global theorem will only rule out a tiny box.
  — Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
• The four-color theorem is now widely accepted as a fact, but still a yearning lingers over it.
  — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 24 July 2023
• This idea is known as the no-cloning theorem, and the multiple outsiders seem to violate it.
  — Edgar Shaghoulian, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2022
• No-cloning theorem A notable feature of qubits is their tendency to lose their state when read.
  — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 7 Jan. 2026
• Often, a theorem is not true for all real numbers but can be proved for all real numbers outside of a null set.
  — Martin Goldstern, Scientific American, 16 Aug. 2021
• Every new theorem ratchets one wall inward, squeezing the gap a little tighter.
  — Sam MacDonald, Scientific American, 15 July 2026
• Noether’s theorem demonstrates that this assumption holds true.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 23 June 2026
• Any theorem centered on the behavior of mass should have pretty much nothing to do with light, as light is massless.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2023
• For the past four decades, scientists have tested the boundaries of Bell’s theorem.
  — David Kaiser, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2017
• Pierre de Fermat has his name on one of the most famous theorems in mathematics.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
• This is known as the no-cloning theorem and has been considered a strength in quantum applications.
  — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 7 Jan. 2026
• In our case, Bayes’s theorem suggests that a poll should shift our priors more the more plausible that poll’s result is.
  — G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2023
• The economics of night trains, in Europe and elsewhere, rest on two basic theorems.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 4 May 2020
• Museum staffers counted the number of glow sticks on each side of the building to prove that the skyscraper conformed to the theorem.
  — Joshua A. Krisch, Popular Mechanics, 6 Dec. 2013
• 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
• That’s a problem for any network that tries to use the theorem to re-create the multivariable function.
  — Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 11 Sep. 2024
• The no-go theorems were a warning; QIQD is a blueprint.
  — Pravir Malik, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
• And at this point, Fermat’s last theorem was nothing new and his interest in it was a bit eccentric.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 17 Aug. 2017
• Euclid’s theorem on the **infinitude of primes**.
  — Benjamin Skuse, IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2026
• This is referred to as the no cloning theorem, the data in qubits collapses upon measurement.
  — Tom Coughlin, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
• This led him to a crucial result about the geometry of black holes, known as Hawking’s area theorem.
  — James Gleick, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021
• The road to the PCP theorem had been anything but straightforward.
  — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024
• But who was Pythagoras, the person behind the famous and useful theorem?
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 24 Sep. 2022
• If your shape casts a shadow that lacks three appropriate vertices, the local theorem won’t apply.
  — Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025