Usually means: Main idea of a paragraph.
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  1. topic sentence: Merriam-Webster
  2. topic sentence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. topic sentence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. topic sentence: Collins English Dictionary
  5. topic sentence: Vocabulary.com
  6. topic sentence: Wiktionary
  7. topic sentence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. topic sentence: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. topic sentence: Dictionary.com
  10. Topic sentence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. topic sentence: Rhymezone
  12. topic sentence: FreeDictionary.org
  13. topic sentence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. topic sentence: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (topic sentence)

noun:  (authorship) A sentence at the beginning of a paragraph indicating the general matter to be discussed later in that paragraph.

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