calculate
verb (used with object)
to determine or ascertain by mathematical methods; compute.
were calculating
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past progressiveof calculate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Jeremy Miles said the exact number of schools "isn't clear" but head teachers were calculating provision based on numbers of union members in schools.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2023
Senior mining ministry official Ridwan Djamaludin said authorities were calculating how much investment and time Indonesia needed to prepare at home to be able to absorb its production.
From Reuters ● Oct. 20, 2022
On Thursday, some of those were calculating the potential loss of business.
From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2020
In the mainstream of particle physics, theorists and experimentalists were calculating and confirming multiple results that established the standard model as, at the very least, a remarkably precise ‘effective theory’.
From Nature ● Apr. 15, 2019
Her mother’s lips were parted slightly, as if she were calculating the answer to a math problem that had been in her head a long time but she had only just come upon the answer.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
