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calculator

[kal-kyuh-ley-ter] / ˈkæl kjəˌleɪ tər /


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Grab your calculator and take our business of sports test.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

If you use a simple savings-distribution calculator, which computes spending withdrawals at the same time as balance growth, you could comfortably spend about $250,000 a year for the next 10 years and still have excess.

From MarketWatch Jul. 8, 2026

The online calculator based on the model will be available through the Oxford University Innovation software store as the STRATIFY-StatinMD Risk Calculator -- Academic use.

From Science Daily Jun. 30, 2026

Instead, Lodge, who goes by Cabot, picked up an HP-12C financial calculator and never looked back, perhaps with an eye to resurrecting the family’s business bona fides.

From Barron's Jun. 25, 2026

Then he tossed Rowan a small calculator from the principal’s desk.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

You can use any number of future-value calculators to experiment with different assumptions.

From MarketWatch Jul. 3, 2026

The advocates were generally happy with what they heard, while also pulling out calculators to assess whether Newsom owes still more to education.

From Los Angeles Times May 14, 2026

The new machine could do tasks about 1,000 times as fast as the electromechanical calculators that preceded it, but it was unwieldy, to say the least.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 26, 2026

Vulnerable people are missing out on benefits because they are being directed to online calculators they cannot use, a charity has said.

From BBC Jan. 27, 2026

No one would confuse the women who used mechanical calculators to process research data with the room-sized electronic devices that performed the same function.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly




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