calculus

That concession appeared to reflect a calculus by the Trump administration that a diplomatic breakthrough between Saudi Arabia and Israel isn't likely to happen for some time.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

It is a calculus playing out across the tech industry as a new generation of AI-powered coding assistants transforms how software gets built.

From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026

All these decades later, I understand the calculus but remain baffled by that reasoning.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026

Now, some lenders are starting to rethink that calculus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

In later works Archimedes figured out the volumes of parabolas and circles, rotated around a line, which any math student knows are early homework problems in a calculus course.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz both “died in excruciating pain while suffering from calculi — a bladder stone for Newton, a kidney stone for Leibniz”.

From Nature ● Apr. 4, 2019

Midway through Infinite Powers, Steven Strogatz writes that Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz both “died in excruciating pain while suffering from calculi — a bladder stone for Newton, a kidney stone for Leibniz”.

From Nature ● Apr. 1, 2019

Lithology, lith-ol′o-ji, n. the science that treats of rocks as mineral masses: that part of medical science concerned with the calculi found in the human body.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Among these improvements may be mentioned new operations, for lithotomy, instruments for crushing calculi, for reducing dislocations, etc.

From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William

I now took 1/2 grain at intervals of eight days; the result was that I passed gravel and small calculi at every micturition.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock

“Do I think I underestimated some factors and overestimated some others? Sure. Do I think that there were calculations and calculuses that I made? Yes,” Porter went on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2024