calculate
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I am not going to calculate how many working Mondays I’ve had in my life, but even before I was working, I had a Garfield-esque disdain for the day.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
Lesedi Ledwaba, in a post on X, said: "Women are not free if we have to calculate where, when and with whom we can walk, run or exist safely".
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
The software would then calculate the next guess expected to provide the most information.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
To compare it with a high-quality corporate bond or a bank CD, we need to calculate the bond’s taxable-equivalent yield.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
“Well, son, I calculate you owe Julio something for taking him away from his work.”
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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Both Heathrow and Gatwick, for example, have moved away from mandating minimum distances between incoming aircraft in favour of a system which continually calculates spacing times based on wind speeds and aircraft types.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
At the $25 million transaction price in Capstone shares, Hutchison calculates that Capstone paid less than a cent per pound for the copper resources alone, excluding by-product credits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
The most expensive purchase, she calculates, were the windows at £30,000, while one of the cheapest measures was making the whole house airtight, which cost £5,000.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
In his weekly Flow Show strategy note published Friday, Hartnett calculates that the cost of servicing the interest on that debt has reached $1.5 trillion yearly.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
"Actually"—Fifi calculates by lifting her fingers one by one from the baby's back, then patting them down—"it was the fourth night. But I knew the minute I saw him."
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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Cross-financed by Germany's wealthier states, Berlin is deep in the red, with 2.2 billion euros in debt calculated in late 2024, which forced painful spending cuts in multiple areas.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
Fitch calculated overvaluation based on the extent to which actual home prices exceeded long-term home-valuation trends.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
PBMs receive rebates calculated as a percentage of a drug’s list price, meaning higher-priced brand drugs yield larger payments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
The researchers calculated a very low carrier density of approximately 1016 per cubic centimeter.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026
He saw everything and calculated all the angles.
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
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“We don’t use that number as a form of calculating how we compensate, because it can be fairly arbitrary,” Tiley said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Tall, gaunt and calculating, Wagoner’s angles had angles, but somehow standing next to her, his pompadour dwarfing her considerable bouffant, it worked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
“We in the West have made a strategic planning mistake in not calculating interceptors against ballistic missiles that are produced,” said Lange, the former German defense official.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
You can test how “nicely” a function moves everything around in space by calculating something called the Jacobian determinant.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
Riddle threw Dumbledore a long, clear, calculating look.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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