calculus
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That concession appeared to reflect a calculus by the Trump administration that a diplomatic breakthrough between Saudi Arabia and Israel isn't likely to happen for some time.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
It is a calculus playing out across the tech industry as a new generation of AI-powered coding assistants transforms how software gets built.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
All these decades later, I understand the calculus but remain baffled by that reasoning.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
Once you’ve decided to enclose it, you’ve changed the whole calculus of the building.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
It would be many years before mathematicians began to free calculus from its mystical underpinnings, for the mathematical world was busy fighting over who invented calculus.
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
Concretions and calculi are collections of earthy salts, the former lying within tissues, the latter being present in canals opening externally.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Concrēte′ness; Concrē′tion, a mass concreted: a growth forming in certain parts of the body, as calculi, &c.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
But it is in the diagnosis of the tumors, and encysted or impacted calculi, that the most essential service may be anticipated from the use of the cystoscope.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various
“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
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