as in calculation
the act or process of performing mathematical operations to find a value
he wasn't very good at ciphering, but he had excellent language skills
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as in calculating
to determine (a value) by doing the necessary mathematical operations
were surprised by how much we had spent on the cruise after we had ciphered out the grand total
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Noun
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Creative decisions will be replaced with financial calculations designed to maximize short-term cash generation rather than long-term franchise-building or artistic quality.—
Joseph M. Singer,
HollywoodReporter,
22 May 2026 -
Those patient deaths, which involve an external hospice agency but occur at MGB hospitals, aren’t officially counted in the mortality calculation.—
Jessica Bartlett — Boston Globe,
STAT,
21 May 2026
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To Brind’Amour, hockey maturity comes down to decision-making, foregoing hope plays for sure things, calculating risk on the fly and landing on the right side of that calculation more often than not.—
Arpon Basu,
New York Times,
27 May 2026
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Therefore, this fundamental constant is key to calculating the strength of gravity everywhere in the universe.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
27 May 2026
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The arithmetic is straightforward.—
Michael Khouw,
CNBC,
22 May 2026
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The arithmetic of demand exceeding supply by several multiples is one of the structural reasons large pre-IPO names tend to run hard in their first months as a public security.—
Joel Shulman,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
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The eternally optimistic Canales still seems bullish on Legette figuring things out, but a disappointing start to the season could land him on the trading block by October.—
Joseph Person,
New York Times,
21 May 2026
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Meaning he’s gone from being on the verge of retiring to figuring this isn’t necessarily his last season.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
20 May 2026
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The most recent deflated reading and math scores reported by the Education Scorecard are the culmination of a downward trend that began in 2013, Kane explained in an interview with PBS.—
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
28 May 2026
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How can California schools improve math instruction?—
Mercury News Editorial Board,
Mercury News,
28 May 2026
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At Variety, Bolies will be the publication’s lead reporter for AI, delivering news, analysis and features about the biggest players in the AI industry and about how Hollywood is adapting to the rise of the most significant advancement in computing technology in a generation.—
William Earl,
Variety,
26 May 2026
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Those users aren’t equipped with advanced, expensive and sometimes esoteric computing hardware.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
25 May 2026
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The challenge now is to create machines at scale that can reliably carry out these computations.—
Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
26 May 2026
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Previous iterations of Fernandes got the ball in high volume and favoured high-risk/high-reward computations.—
Carl Anka,
New York Times,
18 May 2026
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“Ciphering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ciphering. Accessed 29 May. 2026.
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