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The senators calculate that this would cover about 75% of the Social Security’s projected funding shortfall over the next 75 years.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026
The new system overcomes that obstacle, allowing scientists to study realistic asteroid shapes while maintaining the precision needed to calculate their response to an X-ray burst.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026
In principle, researchers could enter detailed information about its shape, then calculate the ideal explosive strength, distance, and direction needed to move it away from Earth.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026
Spain lengthened the wage history used to calculate payouts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
“Had my mother mail me this too. My old trig book. Learn this stuff and you can calculate how high your rockets fly.”
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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The software calculates how much material would vaporize across different parts of the asteroid's surface and displays the results as a heat map.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026
Statewide, more than 4 million votes remain to be counted in this race, according to the Associated Press, which calculates the expected vote using returns and other data.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026
It calculates that "a typical family's disposable income would rise by an average of 2 per cent over the 2020s in the wake of the Chancellor's measures".
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
The enhanced angle-of-attack system calculates the angle of the plane’s nose versus sensor readings on the aircraft.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Brainvox calculates sixteen possible paths for the iron to follow through Phineas's head.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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Using hourly PM2.5 readings from this station, BBC Verify calculated an average concentration of about 945 micrograms over the 24-hour period after 17:00 on 8 November.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
The alternative model predicted abundances that matched those calculated using the standard cosmological framework.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026
He also ordered at that time the claimants should make an initial payment of £9.54m while the final total was calculated.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
That compared with the average analyst forecast of A$2.32 billion, as calculated by Visible Alpha.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
The superpower conflict seemed to take a sudden, more ominous turn: a kind of calculated standoff, in which "winning" now depended on guessing correctly at the enemy's strength and intentions.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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Imagine calculating the shortest route between two neighborhoods in the Mumbai suburbs.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
He’s explained why its way of doing business doesn’t interest him, and why he thinks its way of calculating investment returns is hinky.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
One way to measure is calculating biomass, which refers to plant life by weight but is complicated to do.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
Although the fundamental equations of quantum mechanics can describe the other two processes, calculating how energy is lost through atomic vibrations presents substantial computational obstacles.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 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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