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Economists can use those reports to calculate the Fed’s favorite inflation gauge, the personal consumption expenditure index.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026

I’d chased what everyone else wanted too — the quintessential Hollywood ending of marriage, kids and a house — and didn’t calculate what would happen if it didn’t work out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Additions to property and equipment on the cash-flow statement totaled $115.9 billion last year, which is the figure Microsoft used to calculate free cash flow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Fundamental particles such as electrons are instead described by a "wavefunction," a mathematical representation that researchers can use to calculate the probabilities of properties such as position and momentum.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026

A further decrease of 8% in solar radiation, they calculate, would bring the walls creeping together; there would be no men, no land; only ice.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

At the $25 million transaction price in Capstone shares, Hutchison calculates that Capstone paid less than a cent per pound for the copper resources alone, excluding by-product credits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 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

In his weekly Flow Show strategy note published Friday, Hartnett calculates that the cost of servicing the interest on that debt has reached $1.5 trillion yearly.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

If AI adoption continues on its current trend, the bank calculates that the productivity benefits are set to be more than three times larger in rich economies than in their developing counterparts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

"Actually"—Fifi calculates by lifting her fingers one by one from the baby's back, then patting them down—"it was the fourth night. But I knew the minute I saw him."

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

Now the deadline has passed and, at least until the winter window opens in January, United and Carrick must stand or fall by what has to be viewed as a calculated gamble.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

Moyeen Islam, a Barclays fixed-income strategist, last week calculated the tight correlation between U.S. and U.K. 30-year yields since 2023.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

The complicated way the statistic is calculated, and relatively small changes from year to year, can obscure the larger improvements in public health over time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

To estimate UPF consumption, the researchers analyzed two 24-hour dietary recalls from each participant and calculated the share of daily calories that came from ultra-processed foods.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026

In his “Sand Reckoner,” Archimedes first calculated how many grains of sand would fit across a poppy seed, and then how many poppy seeds would span a finger's breadth.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

“You can deal with one set of tariffs once and be done with it” instead of calculating levies for many different materials and styles, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

You can test how “nicely” a function moves everything around in space by calculating something called the Jacobian determinant.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026

Consider the above chart, which plots three different ways of calculating the CPI:

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026

The state director of finance is responsible for calculating the adjusted minimum wage on or before Aug. 1 each year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

No one seemed to realize calculating sums requires only the most basic machinery and good concentration.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver