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calculation

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




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The Bank will officially confirm the calculation on Thursday.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

PCE inflation figures typically land very close to Wall Street’s estimates, which benefit from other government data, published earlier in the month, that feed into the PCE calculation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

The guarantee derived from a calculation by Hoover’s engineering deputy, Arthur Powell Davis, that so much water flowed down the river that there would always be enough to meet every state’s needs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

WL I was young, before I could tell numbers and operate a scales and so record the weight of my own excrement, the men of the house daily performed this calculation for me.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

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

Include car insurance and other potential costs in your calculations.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

Home Office calculations suggested 196,000 care workers and their adult dependants could settle between 2026 and 2030, at an estimated lifetime cost of £9.5bn to taxpayers.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

According to their calculations, the particle may have survived long enough to temporarily dominate the universe's energy density as the cosmos cooled after the Big Bang.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026

To be especially safe, I took my calculations two decimal points beyond what the computer had come up with.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson


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