arithmetic
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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
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
It is remarkably fast, and by its maker’s arithmetic, cheap to run.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
You can do the arithmetic: about 20 curves per mile, speed limit 15 mph.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
I might not have been good at arithmetic, but I knew that Poppy not getting work plus his not coming home would equal my mother being upset.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
The arithmetics of distance and time were not cheering either.
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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
There were also a few arithmetics and algebras, a historical novel or two, and the inevitable copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin, whose pages I had freely moistened with my tears.
From The Story of a Pioneer by Anna Howard Shaw
His name was Daboll, and he claimed to be descended from that ancient Connecticut maker of arithmetics and almanacs, Nathan Daboll.
From Confessions of Boyhood by John Albee
You might be studying up for your examination; it's not much, but it'll not hurt you to go over their arithmetics and grammars.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 by Various
Vocabulary lists containing arithmetic
Expressions and Equations
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Operations and Algebraic Thinking
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