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calculate

[kal-kyuh-leyt] / ˈkæl kjəˌleɪt /




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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

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

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

“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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