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arithmetic

[uh-rith-muh-tik, ar-ith-met-ik] / əˈrɪθ mə tɪk, ˌær ɪθˈmɛt ɪk /


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Eventually, the arithmetic gets down to the ramekin.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

You may not be earning a six-figure salary like that other letter writer, but your outlook is far less bleak than the initial arithmetic suggests.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

“It changes the air defense arithmetic pretty substantially,” Panda said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

The star and showrunner of “Girls” is the best possible line of demarcation for “millennial art” for meta-textual and arithmetic reasons.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

After all, I don’t know those Bostonians or San Franciscans or Kansans who have taken ill; the numbers, though alarming, held no personal arithmetic.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

The arithmetics of distance and time were not cheering either.

From Time Magazine Archive

To meet the varying needs of teachers these arithmetics are now issued in two editions—a two-book series and a three-book series.

From A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

SEE     BRUECKNER, LEO J.   The new triangle arithmetics.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1963 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Our present system is organized and set forth in arithmetics under some fifteen so-called "tables."

From Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 by Anonymous

There the interruption of commerce with the North compelled a resort to home production in school-book literature, and intensity of feeling upon sectional questions found frequent expression in spelling-books and arithmetics.

From Noah Webster American Men of Letters by Horace E. Scudder


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