How to Use calculation in a Sentence

calculation

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  • The book reveals the cold calculations that were behind the government's policies.
  • The computer can do millions of calculations each second.
  • Careful calculation is required to determine the required amount of fuel.
  • His positions are based on political calculation of what voters want to hear.
  • According to experts' calculations, that star will explode within two billion years.
  • This means the majority of the AI calculations take place in the cloud rather than on-device.
    — Eric Zeman, PCMAG, 1 May 2024
  • Our calculation method also can be applied to other sharks, including extinct species.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 Aug. 2024
  • The wrinkle is that there are still questions surrounding the rules for tax reporting and the calculations needed in that reporting.
    — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Based on my calculation, on average, each shareholder will be charged $5,000.
    — Jill Terreri Ramos, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2024
  • All of these calculations are performed on-device using Tensor G4.
    — Iyaz Akhtar, PCMAG, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The new energy calculation would push the automaker to triple Bolt sales while selling far fewer Silverados.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2024
  • His calculation that blaming half the country for noticing his contradictions is probably shrewd, but definitely shameful.
    — The Editors, National Review, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Based on this calculation, the black hole in UHZ1 must be at least 107 times the mass of the Sun.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Some of that has to do with nuances with the calculation of the CPI itself.
    — Gabriel Cortés, CNBC, 16 July 2024
  • The deal will value Arm at as much as $54.5 billion at the top end of the range, according to Bloomberg News calculations.
    — Liana Baker, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The line for chicken fingers was, per my calculation, fifteen times longer than the line for beer.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
  • Shoppers have to do rapid real-time calculations about whether a batch is worth their time, and then act fast to secure it.
    — Britt Peterson, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The researchers did the calculation, assuming the black hole formed about 200 million years after the Big Bang.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Just keep in mind that with a little calculation, almost any of your favorite recipes can be scaled back or batch-cooked to fit the smaller bill.
    — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Dec. 2023
  • In a calculation of the homicide clearance rate using cases that were cleared by arrest, the rate is 49%.
    — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Best dates for the following full moon, with his time calculations to follow later, are June 19 to 23.
    — Alex Pulaski, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
  • By my calculation, that comes to 17 thousandths of a percent of the federal budget, which this year is $6.4 trillion.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2023
  • The event takes place post-peak TV, however, with a new sense of realism and calculation flooding the world’s TV and film industries.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The first calculation of pi was done by Archimedes, a legendary mathematician of the ancient world, in the centuries leading up to the common era.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2024
  • How many Fox News employees have made the same calculations as Grossberg?
    — Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 6 July 2023
  • In that scheme, the qubit savings largely survived the calculation burden, but at the cost of computation taking longer to run.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Aug. 2023
  • By their calculations, those flares should unfurl over months rather than minutes.
    — Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 15 May 2023
  • But an aborted June 24 mutiny by Yevgeny Prigozhin, the mercenary tycoon, seems to have changed the calculation for the Russian leader.
    — Paul Sonne, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The idea that the calculation here should be anything other than how to beat Donald Trump is to misunderstand what a party is for, and what the Democrats are supposed to unite around.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 July 2024
  • Raising the cost of disrupting global trade for Iran could help change its calculations.
    — Hamidreza Azizi, Foreign Affairs, 10 July 2024

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