calculus
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“It confirmed what the market already smelled: The calculus has shifted towards peace and lower prices at home.”
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
"Using USVs and UUVs are really important because they definitely complicate Chinese military operations and the calculus for it."
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
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
Olly: ahh, calculus, the mathematics of change Madeline: Wow.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
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
Nature, I said to myself, forms calculi by uniting organic elements, by crystallizing them, and by cementing them with vesical mucus.
From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Honor? Bourguignon
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
Preparation.—There are two kinds of renal calculi, the phosphatic and the uric, which should be triturated as separate preparations.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
“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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