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

"So for literally thousands of years, people have been calculating, readjusting, and trying to make our artificial calendars a better match for the astronomy," says Kukula.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2016

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