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calculate

[kal-kyuh-leyt] / ˈkæl kjəˌleɪt /




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Together, these measures were used to calculate a biological age score for participants in the Nutrition for Healthy Living study conducted at the University's Charles Perkins Centre.

From Science Daily Sep. 16, 2026

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

Investors don’t have to calculate these patterns themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 7, 2026

It’s a way to calculate the best time to do something, to figure out the best odds.

From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty

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

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

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

The bank calculates that total revenue for the index excluding energy and financial companies, and adjusted for inflation and currency changes, is up around 8%, much more than GDP.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

On the runway in Boston, her seat belt buckled, Ashima looks at her watch and calculates the Indian time on her fingers.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

However, a lower calculated biological age does not necessarily mean that the aging process itself has been permanently reversed.

From Science Daily Sep. 16, 2026

Former Fijian diplomat Salote Tagivakatini said the moves were less about calculated statecraft and more about religious conviction.

From Barron's Sep. 11, 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

A reality check on my estimate of the Vanguard 500 Index fund’s 50-year performance percentile comes from the track records of investment newsletters that were calculated by my performance auditing firm.

From MarketWatch Sep. 8, 2026

The idea of spy-hopping was creepy because it was so human and calculated.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

“You can deal with one set of tariffs once and be done with it” instead of calculating levies for many different materials and styles, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

Sherriff ordered the Labor Department to “promptly produce” a new methodology for calculating H-2A wage rates consistent with his decision.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

Depending on who is doing the calculating, whether or not an Omen occurred on a given day can vary.

From MarketWatch Aug. 15, 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

To find the mass of the mountain from all these numbers required a great deal of tedious calculating, for which a mathematician named Charles Hutton was engaged.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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