calculate

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A closely watched measure called the control group—which strips out autos, gasoline, building materials, and restaurant meals and is used to calculate gross domestic product—rose 0.5%, well above the 0.3% economists had expected.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

Researchers used this data to calculate both total activity and the share that was intense enough to cause breathlessness.

From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026

For instance, inertial navigation systems—used to calculate a position, orientation and speed of an object—were initially developed for rockets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

This is because, says the MHRA, data for Ropinirole is only based on individual case reports and so can't be used to calculate overall likelihood.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

I don’t know how they calculate that, but I’m sure I’ll learn when I take advanced math classes in school.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman