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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
In other words, rather than relying only on factors such as cholesterol, smoking and blood pressure to calculate someone's future cardiovascular risk, the researchers want to determine whether plaque is already present.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
But forced to calculate on their own, without coding, they’re substantially weaker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Yes, you have an excellent credit score, but the main credit bureaus — Equifax, Transunion and Experian — calculate their scores differently.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
A further decrease of 8% in solar radiation, they calculate, would bring the walls creeping together; there would be no men, no land; only ice.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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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
Bank of America calculates this week’s Federal Open Market Committee statement explaining the decision to lift interest rates by a quarter-point as its most terse, at just 130 words, since 2007.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 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
My stupid brain calculates Elizabeth’s life without my ever giving permission.
From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty
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Because to the Dodgers, that’s not even much of a calculated risk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 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
That could allow scientists to investigate quantum systems whose behavior cannot yet be calculated precisely, potentially including problems too difficult for classical computers.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
The historical averages are calculated over a 30-year period from 1991-2020, which matches the standard period used by the UN’s World Meteorological Organization.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
I calculated that within four days’ time, I would be able to return home.
From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
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Unsurprisingly, technology companies are the most likely to talk about AI, with the DataTrek team calculating that 97% did so on their latest earnings call.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 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
“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
He would spend hours on end in his room, calculating the strategic possibilities of his novel weapon until he succeeded in putting together a manual of startling instructional clarity and an irresistible power of conviction.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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