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calculate

[kal-kyuh-layt] / ˈkæl kjəˌleɪt /




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We can calculate a company’s projected FCF yield by dividing the consensus estimates for free cash flow per share by a company’s share price.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

For about 40 years, physicists have used conformal field theories to calculate how far apart those energy rungs should be.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

For reference, L.A.’s tallest building, the Wilshire Grand Center, has a ratio of roughly 10.5, depending on how you calculate the square footage and acreage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

To calculate the number of days above the heatwave threshold, we first averaged the daily maximum temperature for each grid cell with its nearest grid cells on every day.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Lots of times, that ability to compute and calculate information rapidly was helpful, like when he was reading about complex mathematical theories.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

Nobody calculates how hungry they are with their entrée still twenty minutes away.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

Sarah Godwin calculates it cost her family's Wiltshire farm "over £100,000".

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

A Monte Carlo simulation, widely used in financial planning, calculates the probability that you’ll run out of money before you die.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

When you gaze into the black box, the black box calculates how best to gaze back.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026

“You might be able to find her. She would be”—Molly calculates in her head—“in her late sixties, right? She could very well be alive.”

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

The state agency calculated that the district has classroom capacity for about 718,475 students, compared with a 2025-26 enrollment of 353,065, “representing an overall utilization rate of approximately 49.1%.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

“Everything is perfectly calculated, so you cannot just say, ‘You need more time, you’re going to launch it later,’ so you need to finish on time,” Muñoz said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

"Plants require a certain amount of accumulated heat, calculated as 'growing degree-days,' to progress through developmental stages including fruiting. Our plant cover has proven to enhance these," Olawuyi said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

Analysts at Goldman Sachs Group and elsewhere have calculated that more than $1 trillion has already been spent on the data center build-out since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

He calculated that they had made 444 miles from Elephant Island, more than half the distance.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

He arrived at that rate by calculating the lowest inflation-adjusted withdrawal rate that could nevertheless have been sustained by a 50% stock/50% bond portfolio in the worst 30-year period in U.S. history.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

Home prices also aren’t included—the Labor Department calculates housing prices by calculating how much it would cost owners to rent the homes they live in rather than what those homes would cost to buy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

“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

Rubner said downside protection is inexpensive, calculating that demand for market protection is in the bottom first percentile of the entire year.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

As I stepped into the room, I witnessed something that I’d never seen before: a couple of dozen Colored women sitting at desks, typing on Monroe or Friden desktop calculating machines.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson




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