reckoner
Example Sentences
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Alongside a new "ready reckoner" tool, allowing farms to calculate how much they might be offered, Irranca-Davies announced £33m for nine preparatory schemes to " back farm businesses during the transition to the new SFS".
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2025
There is even a random-text-generating word-frame called the Engine, reminiscent of Gottfried Leibniz's late-seventeenth-century calculating machine, the step reckoner.
From Nature ● Sep. 26, 2017
Man, now having to calculate the various allocations of "leisure," has become, in the realm of consumption, Homo oeconomicus and reckoner of time.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the sand reckoner was destined to meet his fate while reckoning in the sand.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
I have never known a man who early acquired a 77 fortune that was not a calculator and an acute reckoner of his own and other men’s chances.
From Francezka by Seawell, Molly Elliot
