How to Use calculus in a Sentence

calculus

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  • Golf, the sport Song now plays at Phoenix Xavier Prep, was not part of the calculus.
    — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 29 Oct. 2021
  • That may not change the Fed’s calculus on rate cuts, though.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 27 Sep. 2024
  • And then the gate agent explained the pitiless calculus of the oversold flight: The man had been the last to check in.
    — Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • One loss — even getting shut out — didn’t change the calculus for Roberts.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Pretty good calculus on all sides to get a deal done ...
    — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2023
  • But the 9th Circuit’s decision in the Duarte case changed the calculus.
    — Alex Riggins, The Mercury News, 16 July 2024
  • But a crisis in the banking sector that emerged last month has changed the calculus.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Putting him on the ticket could alter the calculus there.
    — Erin Doherty, Axios, 24 July 2024
  • And where does the change of decision calculus come from?
    — CBS News, 24 Nov. 2021
  • And that export cost calculus may change in the future.
    — WIRED, 3 Sep. 2022
  • With all that in mind, teams with stars on the mend must weigh the delicate calculus about whether to bring them back at all — and if so, when.
    — New York Times, 10 Apr. 2022
  • How much is looking ahead to a new CBA and a media rights deal in about three years a part of the calculus for today?
    — Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel, 26 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • As time went on, the whale’s continued refusal to eat began to change the risk calculus for a move.
    — Sam Schechner, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2022
  • How does Russell Crowe boarding as Zeus change the calculus for you?
    — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Aug. 2022
  • But these ever-watching eyes complicate the calculus of what gear to buy, how to move and where to dig in.
    — Colin Demarest, Axios, 7 Aug. 2024
  • But Joe Biden’s decision last month to drop out of the race altered that calculus.
    — Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
  • To be sure, from a pure business calculus, the decision didn't make much sense.
    — John Schmid, jsonline.com, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The jurors were—and are—not required to reveal their calculus.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2021
  • The Falcon Heavy really has not been around long enough to shift that calculus.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Also Jim Cramer is here, if that kind of thing affects your calculus.
    — Damian Garde, STAT, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Given how few tickets are sold each year, a raise in ticket price may have to be part of that calculus as well.
    — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2024
  • But along with a few other students, he was given a chance to take calculus at the City College of New York.
    — WIRED, 18 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • But one needn’t hate Jews to make a different moral calculus.
    — Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The events of the last few days have radically changed that long-sustained calculus.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2022
  • Defaulting to worst-case scenarios, the strategic calculus of any actor at the frontier would be to prioritize speed and secrecy over safety.
    — Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
  • But China’s calculus is more complicated, because its desire to change the current world order is tempered by its reliance upon that very same order.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2024

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