calculator
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She worked the cash register without a calculator, and she was detail-oriented.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
By the time that person turns 65, they will have nearly $1.6 million in home equity and no monthly mortgage payment, according to a calculator developed by Zandi.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
Scanning the newspaper, inky fingers and fuzzled minds, scrambling for the calculator and jotting down the codes for Julian Dicks and Juninho.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Murali Annavaram, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, likened AI to a calculator.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 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
"I would give them notepads, pens, calculators and a stationery set, for example pencil cases, rulers and protractors."
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
That would be "like saying you should be computing without using calculators", he told me.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
Kids shouldn’t be on their phones while doing their homework—though they might argue they need them for calculators and other look-ups.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Some say customers aren’t exactly paying for innovation, but rather for decades of familiarity on the educator side — along with textbooks that build the calculators into their curricula.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
"Pocket calculators are not allowed in this school anyway."
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
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