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calculus

[kal-kyuh-luhs] / ˈkæl kjə ləs /




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While the prediction proved prescient, Musk’s investment has changed the calculus.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

They unpack David Ellison’s calculus, the potential ripple effects, and more.

From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2026

A growing list of threats, from violence to vandalism, has changed the calculus for what’s acceptable in public life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Although he once thought owning a home would be a way for him to achieve independence and build wealth, Yaghoobians has changed his calculus.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

At the library studying or in so-and-so's room getting tutored on her calculus.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

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

In this case the obstruction may be near the orifice of the teat or farther up, and the solid mass is not movable up and down with the same freedom as are concretions and calculi.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

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 John William Draper

The locality, size, and color of vesical calculi have been demonstrated in my own experience.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various

“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


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