abacus
Example Sentences
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Calculators, cars and probably candles and the abacus were considered a menace to society.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025
For example, you can add numbers perfectly using an abacus, in which wooden beads are pushed back and forth to represent arithmetic operations.
From Science Daily • Oct. 30, 2023
You can put away the abacus for this year though.
From BBC • Dec. 9, 2022
“I’d say I’ve never met …” — she squints at an invisible abacus — “ … 80 percent of my producers.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 1, 2022
They are tools that exist as notations on the page and in my mind; like the abacus, they transform the way I operate on numbers.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
