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The plan also suggests getting rid of GPA as an internal metric, instead using percentile rank to calculate honors like cum laude recognition.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

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

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

She was trying to calculate her next move, and she had to think quickly.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown