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

“That’s what I was computing in my head … ‘this must be the price that I have to pay to be a part of this.’

From Seattle Times • Apr. 7, 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