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arithmetic

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


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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

But the arithmetic was suddenly visible anyway: one broken appliance repaired, one replacement avoided, however many dollars still in somebody’s pocket.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

It is what the arithmetic does to them as their AI usage grows — and usage is only growing in one direction.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 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

I could almost hear them doing the mental arithmetic, calculating my age backward.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

The arithmetics of distance and time were not cheering either.

From Time Magazine Archive

To accompany 1948 revision of Study arithmetics, book 7.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1975 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

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

The frequency of appearance in the first fifty pages of eight beginners' arithmetics was as shown in Table 9.

From The Psychology of Arithmetic by Edward L. (Edward Lee) Thorndike

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


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