was computing
- past progressive of compute.
Example Sentences
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Ms. Toomey, a senior at Northeastern University, was computing, with some bitterness, the “hundreds of thousands of hours” of unpaid labor she and her friends had provided to the senator.
From New York Times ● May 19, 2021
Somewhere in his subconscious, he was computing the physics and analyzing the geometry necessary to realize whatever he wanted to happen.
From Slate ● Nov. 25, 2020
In the late 1990s, Microsoft was computing for most people.
From The Verge ● Mar. 3, 2020
Brightbill had never run away—or flown away—and suddenly Roz was computing all the things that could go wrong.
From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown
THE GEOMETRICIAN.—I was computing according to the registers of the golden age, but we must reckon according to that of iron.
From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by
