calculator
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Take care of the big expenses as soon as possible and then don’t bother bringing out the calculator for smaller bills.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson earns about $51 million, giving him a total liability of $24 million on that money, including $5 million in state and local taxes, the calculator says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Murali Annavaram, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, likened AI to a calculator.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
He thinks students quickly find alternative calculator options to be more intuitive than the TI-84s.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
He took out his calculator and got to work.
From "Orbiting Jupiter" by Gary D. Schmidt
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There are online calculators that help people calculate their Coast FI numbers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Still, Texas Instruments has been able to command premium prices for its calculators, largely because many high-schoolers have no choice but to buy them.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Several breast cancer risk calculators like Boadicea already exist and none are perfect.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Electronic calculators, for instance, may have helped users solve equations -- but left the method and reasoning process in human hands.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
Or we can punch the numbers into our calculators and see the error message ourselves.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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