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calculation

[kal-kyuh-lay-shuhn] / ˌkæl kjəˈleɪ ʃən /




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But though the ceasefire may have been born out of political calculation rather than purely humanitarian compassion, it also resulted in hundreds of civilians escaping.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

Their preliminary calculation highlights the potentially enormous scale of the process.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

The AI boom changes that calculation in several ways, as crystallized in Anthropic’s public offer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

"Mathematics goes far beyond calculation: it's a way of thinking clearly," Mallat said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

It implies the existence of states, of state interests and of rational calculation about how they may be achieved.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

A 0.25 percentage point rise would mean a £31 increase in monthly repayments for someone with a typical tracker home loan, according to calculations by banking trade body UK Finance.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

The same calculations projected a 20.7% reduction in cooling water consumption and a 36% decrease in operating costs.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

But using back-of-the-envelope calculations, based on Meta’s closing share price of $621.03 on Tuesday, $95 billion would make for 152,971,676 new shares, or 5.9% of the company’s third-quarter average diluted share count of 2.573 billion.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

If their calculations were still off, the company could miss its window for a fall launch in grocery stores.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

When the fundamental is included in calculations, it is called the first partial, and the rest of the harmonics are the second, third, fourth partials and so on.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones


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