Example Sentences

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The Oregon Department of Corrections will compute their remaining sentence.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 8, 2021

This distribution will compute probabilities for any binomial process.

From Textbooks • Nov. 29, 2017

We will compute how much future payments are worth in terms of today’s dollars, assuming we have the ability to invest winnings and earn interest.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your songs, or by the empty pots made less tragic by your tales?

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

But a prudent man, if he quits a certainty or migrates from a distance, will compute his prospects upon this scale of averages, and assuredly not upon the accidents of exceptional luck.

From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)