calculation
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"That's pretty late, so our calculation is likely an underestimation of the real number."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
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
Snowflake’s calculation is fairly straightforward: How many potential customers are there, and how much could each spend?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
This calculation is often described as a “blunder” or “mistake.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Alexander, in fact, has done a very simple calculation to demonstrate what would happen if the children of Baltimore went to school year-round.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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
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
This combination of experimental measurements and theoretical calculations was essential to understanding the mechanism.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026
Making his calculations with a pencil became laughably impossible.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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