calculate
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I am not going to calculate how many working Mondays I’ve had in my life, but even before I was working, I had a Garfield-esque disdain for the day.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
Lesedi Ledwaba, in a post on X, said: "Women are not free if we have to calculate where, when and with whom we can walk, run or exist safely".
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
The software would then calculate the next guess expected to provide the most information.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
To compare it with a high-quality corporate bond or a bank CD, we need to calculate the bond’s taxable-equivalent yield.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Ekon tried to calculate that in his mind.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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If the S&P 500 were to return to the valuation reached during the 2025 tariff shock, the index would trade near 18 times forward earnings, implying an S&P level around 7,200, Truist calculates.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
When you gaze into the black box, the black box calculates how best to gaze back.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
Both Heathrow and Gatwick, for example, have moved away from mandating minimum distances between incoming aircraft in favour of a system which continually calculates spacing times based on wind speeds and aircraft types.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
The most expensive purchase, she calculates, were the windows at £30,000, while one of the cheapest measures was making the whole house airtight, which cost £5,000.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
On the runway in Boston, her seat belt buckled, Ashima looks at her watch and calculates the Indian time on her fingers.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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US journalist Austin Tice, who disappeared in Syria in 2012, was kidnapped in a calculated operation which was more than a month in the planning, the BBC can reveal.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
The team calculated the average difference between biological and chronological age within each birth cohort.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
PBMs receive rebates calculated as a percentage of a drug’s list price, meaning higher-priced brand drugs yield larger payments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Without the additional heat brought by climate change, a comparable temperature pattern "would probably occur only once in a few thousand years", Rohde calculated for AFP.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Mrs. Richardson, doing some quick mental math, calculated that Mia—if this was even the same Mia—would not yet have been pregnant with Pearl that spring.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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Home prices also aren’t included—the Labor Department calculates housing prices by calculating how much it would cost owners to rent the homes they live in rather than what those homes would cost to buy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
“We don’t use that number as a form of calculating how we compensate, because it can be fairly arbitrary,” Tiley said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Tall, gaunt and calculating, Wagoner’s angles had angles, but somehow standing next to her, his pompadour dwarfing her considerable bouffant, it worked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Let me give you the number you should be calculating instead.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
Here was a new stunner—I had been calculating on four or five thousand.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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