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Recent Examples of theorem These measurements confirmed a 54-year-old theorem from the late physicist Stephen Hawking about how black holes grow when their mass increases. Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 10 Sep. 2025 Running a university required the same instincts as solving a theorem: define the problem, test the possibilities and accept that progress only comes through struggle. Hanna Kang, Oc Register, 31 Aug. 2025 So mathematicians kept band matrices on their to-do list, hoping to turn the theories into theorems. Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 15 Aug. 2025 Not only do abelian surfaces show up in real life—the real life of a mathematician, that is—but proving a modularity theorem about them would open new mathematical doors. Joseph Howlett, Wired News, 27 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for theorem
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Noun
  • The Nikumaroro theory suggests that Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, landed on the island’s reef before their plane was swept away.
    Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Although Robson took more than a decade to put his theory to the test, his experiments in the 1980s proved his hunch was correct.
    Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • For her senior thesis, Natalie Zenk researched a Native American statue that had been in Cornell College's art collection for more than a century.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 13 Oct. 2025
  • When there's no thesis or insight, this series feels dangerously close to pure exploitation of a tragedy real people have endured.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025

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