arithmetic
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Bessent’s rough 3% math would work, according to forecasters, though exact arithmetic depends on several assumptions and targets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Both were usually euphemisms for the same thing: I was dieting, and I had already begun the day’s arithmetic.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
It is remarkably fast, and by its maker’s arithmetic, cheap to run.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
You can do the arithmetic: about 20 curves per mile, speed limit 15 mph.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
Sister Gladys took time from her busy schedule to give her lessons in arithmetic.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
The arithmetics of distance and time were not cheering either.
From Time Magazine Archive
So they came forward in their order: Julia, And Isabel, and Caroline; until I was dragged forth from maps and lexicons, Slate-pencils and arithmetics, and put Candidate Number Four, upon the list.
From The Woman Who Dared by Epes Sargent
They even got cook-books and arithmetics and books about geometry—pity the poor soldiers.
From Roy Blakeley by Percy Keese Fitzhugh
His name was Daboll, and he claimed to be descended from that ancient Connecticut maker of arithmetics and almanacs, Nathan Daboll.
From Confessions of Boyhood by John Albee
Damp smelling books were here and there among the ruins, histories, arithmetics, algebras and grammars.
From Pee-Wee Harris on the Trail by Percy Keese Fitzhugh
Vocabulary lists containing arithmetic
Expressions and Equations
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Operations and Algebraic Thinking
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