calculus

And while that was certainly a part of Beyoncé’s calculus when plotting “Irreemplazable,” she has a personal attachment to Spanish music.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

To this day, his calculus for greenlighting any major production seems to come down to how vastly one’s star power burns.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026

Although they lived in many of the same environments as anatomically modern humans, their dental calculus contained considerably more insect DNA.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026

Her thrifty calculus helps explain the trouble circling Whirlpool, America’s appliance-making giant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

In later works Archimedes figured out the volumes of parabolas and circles, rotated around a line, which any math student knows are early homework problems in a calculus course.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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

These should not be set down as biliary calculi without further developments.

From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

The passage of renal or hepatic calculi may give rise to symptoms falsely suggesting neuralgia, which require just to be mentioned here.

From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie

In this case the obstruction may be near the orifice of the teat or farther up, and the solid mass is not movable up and down with the same freedom as are concretions and calculi.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

“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