calculate

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She found it baffling how employers who reported qualified overtime in Box 14 of employees’ W-2s didn’t calculate it the same way.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

To calculate it yourself, start with a financial report line item called cash from operations, and then fully subtract capex.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Figures used to calculate this are different to the pure pre-tax loss.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

Previous studies had confirmed that nanoplastics existed in ocean water, but no one had been able to calculate how much was actually there.

From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026

My brain began to calculate how many days we’d have to work to recover what we had lost.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson