Example Sentences

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It is unclear if this happened inadvertently or calculatedly.

From Slate • Sep. 19, 2024

In another moment, she says, calculatedly blasé: “I guess I’m just relatable.”

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2023

Yet both have calculatedly peddled their images — like plenty of the born rich do — as industrious, self-made success stories.

From Salon • Apr. 1, 2023

His self-determined walk away into the sunrise is a victory over a ruinous game that would have stolen the jersey off his back years ago had he not been so calculatedly self-protective.

From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2023

The physician was one of those men who achieve a fashionable practice by an outrageous bluntness—a calculatedly outrageous bluntness.

From Swirling Waters by Rittenberg, Max