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the act or process of performing mathematical operations to find a value
by my calculus the more efficient air conditioner will have paid for itself within a span of five years
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The larger the spread, the riskier the loan, or so goes the calculus.
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Rob Copeland, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
But inflation has declined dramatically from a few years ago, and the election is over, changing the political calculus.
—Jeff Stein and Ellen Nakashima The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 25 Dec. 2024
This is not to say that a seeming Russian success in Ukraine would automatically prompt Chinese leader Xi Jinping to invade Taiwan; other factors, such as the military balance of power in the region and political imperatives in Beijing, will be more decisive in shaping Xi’s calculus.
—Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2024
Read: How Israel could be changing Iran’s nuclear calculus
Nobody will miss the Axis of Resistance.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
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Rob Copeland, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
But inflation has declined dramatically from a few years ago, and the election is over, changing the political calculus.
—Jeff Stein and Ellen Nakashima The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 25 Dec. 2024
This is not to say that a seeming Russian success in Ukraine would automatically prompt Chinese leader Xi Jinping to invade Taiwan; other factors, such as the military balance of power in the region and political imperatives in Beijing, will be more decisive in shaping Xi’s calculus.
—Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2024
Read: How Israel could be changing Iran’s nuclear calculus
Nobody will miss the Axis of Resistance.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
See all Example Sentences for calculus
Recent Examples of Synonyms for calculus
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His interest in sports analytics comes from his math teacher father, who handed out rulers to Trick-or-Treaters each year.Jesse Newell, Kansas City Star, 4 Jan. 2025
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According to the Personal Bond/Bail Order, Gonzales was granted custody of Perez and received disability payments for the girl, who had the math and reading level of a first grader.KC Baker, People.com, 3 Jan. 2025
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The United States’ ranking is held down by its lack of reciprocity, according to how Henley & Partners makes its calculations.Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
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Crutchfield, a former math teacher who never played college basketball and coached tennis before getting his big D-II break at West Liberty University, sees the game like a math problem and has created his own calculations.CJ Moore, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
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So tariff revenue will not be as high as our initial arithmetic shows, but the loss of consumer welfare will be in the ballpark of that initial figure.Bill Conerly, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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Expanding that field into the new 12-team iteration changes that often-infuriating arithmetic that left deserving teams like Florida State last season, Texas A&M in 2020, UCF in 2017 and Baylor and TCU in 2014 cursing the way college football crowned a champion.David Ubben, The Athletic, 26 Aug. 2024
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