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theorem

noun

as in theory

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 This is known as the no-cloning theorem and has been considered a strength in quantum applications. —

Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 7 Jan. 2026 Since Bernshteyn’s result, his peers have been exploring how to move back and forth across the bridge to prove new theorems on either side, and how to extend that bridge to new classes of problems. —

Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 21 Nov. 2025 Who could have imagined in 1956, at the very start of the quest to build artificial intelligence, that a machine could already prove mathematical theorems? —

Big Think, 4 Nov. 2025 The philosopher Carl Lundgren, applying Bayes’s theorem to the probability problem, estimates a likelihood—in Cold War-type geopolitical conditions—of one nuclear war every 74 years, a remarkably close number to this. —

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At universities, the study of ancient Chinese texts has historically been scattered across disciplines; now, under government direction, universities are trying to gather that scholarship in new classics departments where, one theory goes, ancient truths can be nurtured and passed down.

— Chang Che, New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2026
His panels included doctors, physicists, engineers and others and their reports in 2020 and 2022, proposed a theory of the incidents.

— Will Croxton, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2026