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

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

We’ve all had run-ins with smarmy strangers bearing business cards who’ve made it far too obvious that they viewed us through a utilitarian lens and were calculating how we might be able to help them.

From Slate • Apr. 30, 2018

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