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calculate

[kal-kyuh-layt] / ˈkæl kjəˌleɪt /




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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 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

More importantly, scientists can calculate how large those temperature patches should appear.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

Morgan Stanley analysts calculate the operating margins on this deal will be about 30%.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

One small changed family doesn’t calculate into a world that has been spinning for a billion years.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

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

Xi, like most world leaders, calculates his moves on the basis of interests.

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026

"We've asked TfW to make it clearer for passengers when travelling as tap and go calculates the standard adult single fare for your tapped journey," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

JPMorgan Asset Management’s Michael Cembalest calculates that the debt issuance by the five hyperscalers, plus Nvidia, equates to 70% of new Treasury long-duration borrowing.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

I wonder how she calculates her pace—with her watch or with her brain.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen

The plot exists on twists, but if there’s anything missing from “Verity,” it’s the backstory that might inform Verity’s calculated machinations or Lowen’s striving to fill her personal void.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

"Plants require a certain amount of accumulated heat, calculated as 'growing degree-days,' to progress through developmental stages including fruiting. Our plant cover has proven to enhance these," Olawuyi said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

That share for munitions is set to roughly double to an average of 14% between 2028 and 2031, Harrison calculated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

In March, the OBR calculated that the first rule would be met with a gap - or headroom - of £23.6bn.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Now and again we passed a leiter-wagon—the ordinary peasant’s cart—with its long, snake-like vertebra, calculated to suit the inequalities of the road.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

“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

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 in the West have made a strategic planning mistake in not calculating interceptors against ballistic missiles that are produced,” said Lange, the former German defense official.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Let me give you the number you should be calculating instead.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026

In this they are quite unlike testimonies, which degrade as they pass from ear to ear in an endless game of Chinese whispers; eighteenth-century probability theorists actually devised formulae for calculating this rate of degradation.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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