Examples of math in a Sentence
Noun
I did the math, and we can't afford to keep spending like this
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Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2026
Working out the math for the collision of, say, two five-solar-mass black holes, the amount of energy blasted out in less than a second by such a merger would be roughly the same as the sun will emit in seven trillion years.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2026
Ukraine’s allies know that the attritional math is not on their side.
—Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2026
The math was straightforward; get rid of Perardi, pay off the debt.
—Matthew Bremner, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2026
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The social media star, who studied biomedical engineering, also gleefully unveiled the math behind an ocean of synthetic blood — two pumps running for eight hours at 190 gallons per minute.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2026
Working out the math for the collision of, say, two five-solar-mass black holes, the amount of energy blasted out in less than a second by such a merger would be roughly the same as the sun will emit in seven trillion years.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2026
Ukraine’s allies know that the attritional math is not on their side.
—Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2026
The math was straightforward; get rid of Perardi, pay off the debt.
—Matthew Bremner, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2026
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“Math.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/math. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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