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calculator

[kal-kyuh-ley-ter] / ˈkæl kjəˌleɪ tər /


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Patent No. 3,819,921 for their hand-held aluminum calculator.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 25, 2026

By full-time, BBC Sport pundit and former Arsenal defender Martin Keown was joking a calculator might be needed to tot up the number of times Room had bailed his team out.

From BBC • Jun. 21, 2026

To know what this means for you in real dollar terms, you need a sophisticated calculator that can run a doomsday scenario for you against your retirement plan.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

Like a calculator, they say, AI is a tool that can expand our curiosity rather than destroy it.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

She was going to the market with Obiora, who she said figured out change faster than a trader with a calculator.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie




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