abacuses
- plural of abacus.
Example Sentences
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Much of the buzz around the subject in recent years has been about the development of powerful quantum computers which, the narrative goes, will make our fastest supercomputers seem like abacuses by comparison.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2025
The floating ships in the fantasy role-playing game Honkai: Star Rail are populated with traders, gourmets and literati who surf their texts on jade abacuses.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2023
Sports are represented in the form of tiny windsurfers and badminton shuttlecocks, and he has acquired some oddities, like helicopters, pencil stubs, abacuses and matchbooks.
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2016
Behind him are displayed a 1,500-year-old sake pot, a vertical wall of abacuses and various objets d'art befitting a place walking distance from Little Tokyo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2015
But when everybody took abacuses out of their desks, Hanako gaped.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
