Example Sentences

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Researchers have calculated that large portions of California’s irrigated cropland will need to be permanently left dry in the coming years.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026

He was better at physics than he was at predictions but I reckon he would have calculated that the floodlights will inspire Leeds again - but City will still come out on top.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

Researchers in atmospheric science, led by a team at Lancaster University, have calculated for the first time how much of this pollution has accumulated worldwide.

From Science Daily • Feb. 6, 2026

We have talked about market concentration, and I have calculated the numbers.

From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026

Physiologists, in fact, have calculated that rowing a two-thousand-meter race—the Olympic standard—takes the same physiological toll as playing two basketball games back-to-back.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown