How to Use slide rule in a Sentence
slide rule
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That was a bit of this stereotype of the Asian with a slide rule.
—David Marchese, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2020
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Fortunately, the game is filled with people who know their way around a slide rule.
—Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 11 Mar. 2023
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The Germans, using a slide rule, would plot out targets before launch and let a compass guide the rocket in the air.
—David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 8 Sep. 2017
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The basic office gym—with a handful of treadmills and weight equipment—also is going the way of the slide rule.
—Keiko Morris, WSJ, 10 June 2018
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The Boeing logo is subtly integrated into the red ring of the slide rule.
—Carol Besler, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
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Rosol took inspiration the school’s shield and the patch its instructors wear, suggesting the colors, the stars, slide rule and orange flash in his scheme.
—Eric Tegler, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2021
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Maddon was ejected in Game 1 at Dodger Stadium after a call at home plate was overturned because of the slide rule.
—USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2017
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When a violation of the slide rule occurs, the offending runner and the batter-runner will be called out.
—Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2022
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One indication of that passion is a giant slide rule hanging on a stair wall on the first floor of his trinity.
—Sally Friedman, Philly.com, 25 Apr. 2018
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Here’s video of the play eventually ruled as a slide rule violation.
—Dallas News, 23 Apr. 2022
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Hayward craves distraction and Smeathers engages all his debates, whether the subject is the NFL slide rule or a compound math problem.
—Lee Jenkins, SI.com, 20 Dec. 2017
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The decline of the art of memory and slide rule illustrates the power of this sort of technology to be progressive.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2011
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Think of an armillary sphere like a circular slide rule with four separate axes.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 2 Jan. 2020
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In a twist of irony, Simmons was actually determined to have violated the slide rule in the fourth inning as Odor tried to turn a double play.
—Jeff Wilson, star-telegram, 3 June 2018
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It’s 13mm thick, with a bi-directional platinum bezel that sports a classic circular slide rule.
—Matthew Catellier, Forbes, 7 July 2022
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The eye-catching cream dial, which mirrors a cockpit’s navigation screen, pairs black subdials with a red-and-white slide rule.
—Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 27 Jan. 2023
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Johnson and her colleagues used only a slide rule, pencils, and a desktop calculator to calculate the path needed to get astronauts to the moon and to bring the group back home safely.
—Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 24 Feb. 2020
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Following the races within the race often requires the use of a calculator (or, for those Tour traditionalists, a slide rule).
—Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 5 Aug. 2022
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But even without a pocket calculator or slide rule, Cassidy is sensitive to the need for more even-strength production.
—Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Feb. 2021
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The pitch clocks, slide rules, protective netting, limited mound visits and three-batter minimums are the least of baseball’s worries.
—Jeff Bailey, The Denver Post, 23 Dec. 2019
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When pocket calculators were developed in the early 1970s, their slide rule business got crushed by Texas Instruments and Hewlett Packard.
—Neil Santuria, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 Oct. 2017
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By that time, small electronic calculators became affordable and quickly displaced both the Curta and the slide rule.
—Dan Falk, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2021
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Dwyer recalled that because the students did not have calculators until late in the year, Bjorkquist taught them how to do complicated calculations on a slide rule.
—Elizabeth Marie Himchak, Pomerado News, 1 Sep. 2017
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Architects have ditched their slide rules for computer software, but big buildings don’t get constructed without them.
—Liz Hoffman and Telis Demos, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2018
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Though Johnson herself never ventured into the cosmos, her formulas—scrawled on paper with a pencil and a slide rule—will continue to power spaceflight for decades to come.
—Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2020
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The watch, known for being the choice of pilots throughout its 70-year history, is equipped with Breitling’s iconic bidirectional rotating bezel with a circular slide rule.
—Anthony Demarco, Forbes, 1 July 2022
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The company started in 1761 when Kaspar Faber, a German cabinet maker by trade, decided to get into making slide rules.
—Neil Santuria, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 Oct. 2017
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Like tossing a slide rule, aggressive substitution should just happen.
—Peter Tertzakian, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2017
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Interference for the purpose of breaking up a double play (force play slide rule): Runners sliding into the base and deviating from their slide path to force fielders to make difficult throws to complete double plays.
—Ron Higgins, NOLA.com, 16 Mar. 2018
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This was before computer graphics or computer modeling, when architects and engineers worked on a drafting table with a T-square and slide rule.
—Stephen Wade, ajc, 25 July 2021
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