calculate

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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

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

From BBC • 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

It’s the same tool that insurance actuaries use to calculate life expectancy, adapted to estimate how long a typical player might expect to play in the WNBA.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

He asked a partner in his inspection firm, W. F. Gronau, to calculate the novel forces that would play among the components of his structure.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson