How to Use calculus in a Sentence

calculus

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  • But the war changed the calculus for the Ukrainians and Americans alike.
    — Justin Scheck, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2023
  • That seems like an immoral trade off, if that’s the calculus.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Dec. 2022
  • Pretty good calculus on all sides to get a deal done ...
    — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2023
  • But a crisis in the banking sector that emerged last month has changed the calculus.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The idea of using dental calculus—or hardened plaque—to study diseases of the past is not new.
    — Byrodrigo Pérez Ortega, science.org, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Also Jim Cramer is here, if that kind of thing affects your calculus.
    — Damian Garde, STAT, 7 Jan. 2024
  • But if it’s stored in a warehouse close to a dense population of customers, the calculus might change.
    — Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Does the Trump announcement change any part of your planning or calculus?
    — CBS News, 13 Nov. 2022
  • All of it has changed the calculus surrounding Fletcher.
    — The Arizona Republic, 13 May 2023
  • As for how much to take, that’s more a personal diet calculus.
    — Sean Evans, Robb Report, 14 Jan. 2024
  • But once a person enters public life, the calculus changes.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The sheer ambition of FAM has its own risk-reward calculus.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The actual needs of the child are all too often absent from this tricky social calculus.
    — Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Now that sort of pain is part of the calculus of a strike, and WGA members are right to note there’s a bigger long-term reason for workers to suffer that pain now.
    — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 14 Sep. 2023
  • That first draft also de-emphasized calculus as a goal for high school math.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2023
  • Use calculus to show that the point of inflection of a cubic is also its point of symmetry.
    — Patrick Honner, Quanta Magazine, 24 Mar. 2023
  • That changed the calculus for the seven European teams, which may have expected to merely be fined.
    — Graham Dunbar, Chicago Tribune, 21 Nov. 2022
  • But once things get more competitive, the calculus changes.
    — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
  • For example, you might be told that math starts with counting, then goes to algebra, then calculus and so on.
    — Audrey G. Bennett, The Conversation, 10 Aug. 2023
  • By the Cambridge calculus, Southerners are worse than Nazis?
    — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Writers say they aren't being paid enough, TV writer rooms have shrunk too much and the old calculus for how residuals are paid out needs to be redrawn.
    — Jake Coyle, USA TODAY, 2 May 2023
  • Writers say they aren’t being paid enough, TV writer rooms have shrunk too much and the old calculus for how residuals are paid out needs to be redrawn.
    — Jack Coyle, Fortune, 2 May 2023
  • The Supreme Court decision, however, has changed the calculus.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 12 June 2023
  • Does that calculus change when the quarterback is making CEO money?
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The third claim is that data science coursework will crowd out calculus or some of the other math required for college STEM degrees.
    — Steven Levitt, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
  • But, if the planets can be heated from the inside and water could be shielded from the direct starlight by hiding underground, the calculus could very well change.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 12 July 2023
  • In Cameron’s, or at least in the case of unobtanium, that calculus was inverted.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Why should men even bother to marry, given the calculus of risks versus rewards?
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The filmmakers’ calculus tends to be affected by whether traumatic events are at stake and whether the movie could be viewed as exploitative.
    — Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
  • That said, how the rest of the world behaves toward Putin and to signs of Xi’s aggression around Taiwan and in the broader region could have an impact on Xi’s calculus, experts say.
    — Will Ripley, CNN, 26 Feb. 2024

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