arithmetic
Example Sentences
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The cause wasn’t ideology but arithmetic: The old bargain of household specialization—one spouse in the market, one in the home, concentrating where they were most productive—became unaffordable as women’s earnings rose.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 17, 2026
Makers of personal computers face the same arithmetic, though not all are equally exposed.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026
That is for 8 May and beyond, when the votes have been counted and the parliamentary arithmetic reveals who is best placed to take charge of the Scottish government for the next five years.
From BBC • May 1, 2026
That arithmetic explains why investors panicked when the changes were proposed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
No record survives of Tisquantum’s first journey across the Atlantic, but arithmetic gives some hint of the conditions in Hunt’s ship.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing arithmetic
Expressions and Equations
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Operations and Algebraic Thinking
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"Be-ers and Doers" and "My Moment of Truth"
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