calculating

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If this was a crime of passion, it was meticulously laid out, but eventually it was exposed as a cold and calculating house of cards that came crashing down.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

Predicting what may happen with the third, before calculating the second, only makes the first step seem even more frenzied.

From Barron's • Mar. 19, 2026

The solution of indexing capital gains to inflation would correct this distortion by adjusting the original purchase price for inflation before calculating taxable gains, ensuring that only genuine appreciation beyond inflation is subject to taxation.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

In this process, called entanglement, qubits share the burden of calculating probabilities—leading to faster, nonlinear computing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

She gave Fadi a calculating look that made him a little nervous.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai