calculate
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That will be used to calculate the readers' points total.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
The Journal analyzed European rivers using satellite imagery to calculate a water index that highlights surface water.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
In their study entitled “Bubbles for Fama,” they used prior two-year returns to calculate the odds of a crash — defined as a drop of at least 40% over the subsequent two years.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Temperatures in the area of the ocean used to calculate El Niño were already 2.41 degrees above baseline.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
I quickly stash the three boxes of bioloaf and calculate it will only last us a few months.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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The most expensive purchase, she calculates, were the windows at £30,000, while one of the cheapest measures was making the whole house airtight, which cost £5,000.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
In his weekly “Flow Show” strategy note published Friday, Hartnett calculates that the cost of servicing the interest on that debt has reached $1.5 trillion yearly.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
The bank calculates that total revenue for the index excluding energy and financial companies, and adjusted for inflation and currency changes, is up around 8%, much more than GDP.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The SOX on Thursday closed above its 50- and 200-day moving averages, but below its 20-day moving average, only the 19th time it has done that, Krinsky calculates.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 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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Opta's 'supercomputer' is actually a complex algorithm that uses a model based on betting market odds and the sports analytics company's own 'power rankings', which are calculated using past results.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
By the time I pledged, early on the first day of fundraising, the campaign had already met its initial $1.5-million goal — the minimum required, Day calculated, to pull off a version of her script.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
The lawyer said they believe Meta calculated that figure "for shock value."
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
The documents included no explanation of how that number was calculated.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
This time he’s giving me the calculated look.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
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Let me give you the number you should be calculating instead.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
You can test how “nicely” a function moves everything around in space by calculating something called the Jacobian determinant.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
Only after calculating the probability to be zero did he conduct his experiment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
In an unusually detailed sentencing statement, judge O'Grady noted that calculating punishment parts is "with good reason" much misunderstood by victims and members of the public.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Cat looked at Chicken hard, her brain calculating how long it would take to reach him.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
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