- present participle of calculate.
calculating
Example Sentences
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Ahmed: It wasn’t that careerist and calculating, to be honest.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
The challenge in calculating the muon's behavior came largely from the strong force, the most powerful of the four known fundamental forces.
From Science Daily • May 19, 2026
This underscores the importance of a true out-of-sample test when calculating AI’s track record.
From MarketWatch • May 8, 2026
Under cross-examination by OpenAI attorney Sarah Eddy, Brockman sought to reframe diary entries that Musk's lawyers had used the previous day to portray him as a calculating opportunist.
From Barron's • May 5, 2026
I’m still calculating the profit when the outboard starts to sputter.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
Vocabulary lists containing calculating
The House of the Scorpion
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Novel Study: Of Mice and Men, Chapters 1–3
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Mississippi Trial, 1955
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