Example Sentences

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"She is very calculative and wants to take responsibility. We always trust her and today was a very special knock."

From Barron's • Oct. 31, 2025

Even if you create the chance, there is no sharp striker who is calculative enough up front.

From BBC • Dec. 18, 2024

"Strict calculative rules assured tenants and courts that fines were reasonable, limiting landlords' ability to maximize revenues," Deringer writes in the new article.

From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2024

Saint-Exupéry, an aviator in the Second World War, saw the conventional adult world as built on destructive human folly: illusions of control, narcissism and calculative thinking.

From Nature • Apr. 23, 2018

Dad wasn’t nervous over his prospects, but calm and calculative, as became his age.

From The Flockmaster of Poison Creek by Ivory, P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman)