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calculating
adjective as in scheming to manipulate
Strongest matches
Strong matches
- contriving
- designing
- guarded
- premeditating
Example Sentences
Yet most people don’t know how to assess their insurance needs, for example, by calculating how much financial shock they can absorb from different emergencies.
At the Lyceum, Lincoln urged that the country’s growing mobocratic spirit be replaced by “cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason”; that “reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.”
One caveat is that multiple engrams of differing sizes existing around a common center are deemed to represent similar concepts and are therefore treated as one when calculating memory capacity.
De minimis, which is Latin for something of little importance, dates to 1938 when Congress passed the exception to boost trade and save the time of inspecting and calculating taxes on every package.
Professors are calculating how long science and medical research labs can stay open — some have three months left before downsizing.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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