calculating

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He pointed to an "escalating pattern of conduct" and "deliberate and calculating" actions, causing the women to make "significant changes" to their lifestyles.

From BBC • 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

And calculating what, exactly, any retailer might owe its customers would require unpacking the agreements they struck with suppliers and shippers to share the tariff burden.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 12, 2026

Phil Resch said, “Polokov struck me as cold. Extremely cerebral and calculating; detached.”

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick