Let . If is sufficiently large and is a graph on vertices with no and at least edges then contains a set of vertices containing no triangle.

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There are explicit constructions of **(K_5)-free** graphs on $N$ vertices with **quadratically many edges** but with **no linear-size triangle-free vertex set**.

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