calculate
verb (used with object)
to determine or ascertain by mathematical methods; compute.
have been calculating
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present perfect progressiveof calculate.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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“Another one would have been calculating, ‘Well, if I run I and lose, it’s this versus that.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2024
As the war in Ukraine approaches its one-year anniversary, analysts have been calculating the immense economic toll, and modeling what’s to come.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2023
It's the 50th anniversary of the Q score and they have been calculating how well-known and how well-liked the top 1,850 celebrities are every six months.
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2014
Kahneman also advised the audience to be “more tolerant of other people’s System 1”; that is, don’t assume they have bad intentions and have been calculating.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 28, 2013
Ever since we’d left Burnt Mill Creek, Cade Hernandez must have been calculating some method for successfully extracting an “Oh” from me, and when it finally happened he musically pounced.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
