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[ih-kway-zhuhn, -shuhn] / ɪˈkweɪ ʒən, -ʃən /


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But a low mortgage rate is only one part of the equation.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

It seems like a simple equation: $338 million produces 100.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

The old equation - hard work = secure job - no longer works, and they want a new narrative, Xiang says.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

On the other side of the equation are businesses that think now is the time to keep prices low: They can beat out their competitors and retain cost-conscious customers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Somehow I did not figure us—the horse and me—into the equation.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen

Fightstarters over ambiguous issues — the annual argument over “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” the internet-breaking Dress, countless poorly written math equations on Facebook — are evergreen.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

This past week, in only 88 hours, thousands of collaborating OpenAI agents resolved Navier-Stokes, a Millennium Prize mathematics problem rooted in equations that have resisted full solution since 1822.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

OpenAI said its work showed that these equations can break down over time, answering the question as set out by the Millennium Prize.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

He claimed that OpenAI did not begin working on the Navier–Stokes equations until "after information about our work had reached OpenAI."

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

According to the equations of quantum mechanics, more power than is stored in all the coal mines, oil fields, and nuclear weapons in the world is sitting in the space inside your toaster.

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




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