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OpenAI’s investors had reportedly tried to compare its annualized revenue with that of rival Anthropic, but because the frontier labs calculate this number differently, that led to inconsistencies, according to the Financial Times.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
The Journal used DHS’s published funding formula to calculate eligible reimbursement amounts; 14 agencies in five states confirmed those findings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
For about 40 years, physicists have used conformal field theories to calculate how far apart those energy rungs should be.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
For reference, L.A.’s tallest building, the Wilshire Grand Center, has a ratio of roughly 10.5, depending on how you calculate the square footage and acreage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
She was trying to calculate her next move, and she had to think quickly.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
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Nobody calculates how hungry they are with their entrée still twenty minutes away.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
RBC calculates an earnings per share hit of 9% from last week’s parliamentary vote to require 90% CET1 backing—only 0.3 point better than the worse option of full CET1 backing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
A Monte Carlo simulation, widely used in financial planning, calculates the probability that you’ll run out of money before you die.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
Bank of America calculates this week’s Federal Open Market Committee statement explaining the decision to lift interest rates by a quarter-point as its most terse, at just 130 words, since 2007.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
“You might be able to find her. She would be”—Molly calculates in her head—“in her late sixties, right? She could very well be alive.”
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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For someone whose notoriety has twice become inseparable from who he’s married to, Pitt’s choice to play gruff loners feels noticeably calculated, keeping an arm’s distance between his work and the audience.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
The metric is calculated by taking revenue from a short period, such as a month or a quarter, and multiplying it to gauge what a company could earn over a full year.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
A report commissioned, external by her government released earlier this month calculated the costs of separation as between C$50bn and C$170bn over five years - and a highly unpredictable outlook over the long term.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
The 33-year-old from England’s south coast calculated the upfront cost of his preferred version of the Chinese sport-utility vehicle at the equivalent of around $50,000, half the price of a visually similar Range Rover model.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Bull calculated the distance between himself and Ben, then lobbed the shot putt in the air.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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Unsurprisingly, technology companies are the most likely to talk about AI, with the DataTrek team calculating that 97% did so on their latest earnings call.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 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
Rubner said downside protection is inexpensive, calculating that demand for market protection is in the bottom first percentile of the entire year.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
“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
“To proselytize means to preach a certain way of thinking, in this case the cause of the Survivalists,” I answer, mentally calculating distance and time.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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