- present participle of calculate.
calculating
Example Sentences
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That’s before calculating expenses for gear, food, water and other vital supplies.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
“Aemond is such a calculating character and everything he does is premeditated. He’s so in control of himself. I found myself offering up the same take every single take.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Experts who are calculating the water demands of the biggest infrastructure buildout in U.S. history say this could lead to regional fights over who gets an increasingly scarce resource.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
Higher inflation means that those future earnings must be discounted to a much greater extent when calculating their present value.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 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
Vocabulary lists containing calculating
The House of the Scorpion
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Novel Study: Of Mice and Men, Chapters 1–3
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Mississippi Trial, 1955
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