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calculus

[kal-kyuh-luhs] / ˈkæl kjə ləs /




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And while that was certainly a part of Beyoncé’s calculus when plotting “Irreemplazable,” she has a personal attachment to Spanish music.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

To this day, his calculus for greenlighting any major production seems to come down to how vastly one’s star power burns.

From Slate Sep. 1, 2026

Although they lived in many of the same environments as anatomically modern humans, their dental calculus contained considerably more insect DNA.

From Science Daily Aug. 27, 2026

Her thrifty calculus helps explain the trouble circling Whirlpool, America’s appliance-making giant.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

The other winner is a girl in fourth grade who teaches advanced calculus to college kids.

From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio

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

It has been also observed, in various countries, that particular waters produced various morbid affections; and to this cause have been attributed goitres, cretinism, calculi, and other distressing diseases.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

Among these improvements may be mentioned new operations, for lithotomy, instruments for crushing calculi, for reducing dislocations, etc.

From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper

The passage of renal or hepatic calculi may give rise to symptoms falsely suggesting neuralgia, which require just to be mentioned here.

From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie

“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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