calculate
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If I had to calculate my own ratio of work done to soccer watched ... well, as I am not a sports reporter, I don’t think my editor would be thrilled.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2026
What we have also seen this year is a bull market driven by earnings increases — or increases in analysts’ rolling 12-month earnings-per-share estimates, which are used to calculate forward price-to-earnings ratios.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 30, 2026
Because these explosions reach nearly the same intrinsic brightness, astronomers use them as "standard candles": by comparing their actual brightness with how bright they appear from Earth, researchers can calculate their distance.
From Science Daily • Jun. 29, 2026
That marks a departure from past tests; the Fed is waiting until 2027 to calculate a key piece of how much capital banks must hold.
From Barron's • Jun. 24, 2026
In other words, he wanted me to calculate by hand the same numbers that had been fed into the electronic computer, to see if the answers I generated would match the computer’s.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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