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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

AT&T was the last of the major telecommunications stocks that Bernstein analyst Laurent Yoon recommended to his clients, but now SpaceX has changed that calculus.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 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

The other winner is a girl in fourth grade who teaches advanced calculus to college kids.

From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio

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

The treatment of vesical calculi by other means than operative surgery is of little value.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various

Professor Nasse, of Bonn, where my son studied medicine at the time, has analyzed the calculi, and has found them to be urate of lime.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz

Sometimes the passage of the bile is obstructed by calculi, or gall-stones; they have been found in great numbers in oxen.

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by George Dadd

“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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