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equation

[ih-kway-zhuhn, -shuhn] / ɪˈkweɪ ʒən, -ʃən /


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But a low mortgage rate is only one part of the equation.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

For shorter-term bonds, though, it is a somewhat simpler equation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

It seems like a simple equation: $338 million produces 100.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

Again, experience will come into the equation if Cox's form suggests a more drastic decision must be made.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Best to take my mother out of the equation.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

Fightstarters over ambiguous issues — the annual argument over “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” the internet-breaking Dress, countless poorly written math equations on Facebook — are evergreen.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

For nearly a century, mathematicians have tried to determine whether smooth solutions to the equations describing three-dimensional fluid motion always remain smooth or if they ever break down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

The claim arrived hours after Tristan Buckmaster, a mathematician at New York University, and Levent Alpoge, who works at OpenAI competitor Anthropic, released their own AI-assisted work on three related equations.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

He claimed that OpenAI did not begin working on the Navier–Stokes equations until "after information about our work had reached OpenAI."

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

Perhaps the weirdest of all is caused by a zero in the equations of quantum mechanics: the zero-point energy.

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




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