calculating
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To be sure, calculating real interest rates is not an exact science, since they are based on future inflation — and that is something we can only estimate.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026
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
The time-freezing, Clock-Watcher-dominating, cruel and calculating villain of the day was fading like smoke.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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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