How to Use calculated in a Sentence

calculated

adjective

• Paddling a kayak in the ocean is always a calculated risk.
  — David Brown, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2020
• He's built an empire on quick decisions and calculated risks.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
• The Dolphins would be taking a calculated risk on his future health.
  — Usa Today Sports, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2020
• Authorities are still trying to learn whether the raids simply reflect the power of smartphones or something more calculated.
  — Dennis Wagner, USA TODAY, 16 June 2020
• To those on the outside, the change appears sudden; those on the inside understand that transformation stems from a series of calculated steps.
  — Clint Boulton, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
• Schnepp Renou This sense of space is reinforced by a very calculated choice of colors and materials.
  — Fiona Bornhöft, Architectural Digest, 23 Sep. 2024
• The other night, on the porch of her house in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, Jessica Haller took a calculated risk.
  — Andy Newman, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020
• Such chaos reveals that while much on the island has changed, the simultaneously slapdash and calculated way in which the city buries its unclaimed dead remains more or less the same as ever.
  — John Hirschauer, National Review, 28 Apr. 2020
• The government doesn't provide an official figure, but others crunched the numbers and calculated output fell by 28%.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 20 May 2020
• Later on, that willingness to take calculated risks became a constant connection back to the immigrant experience.
  — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2024
• The chance to go ahead rather than tie the game was a risk but a calculated one in McCarthy’s view.
  — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2020
• The body of the mouse leans to a calculated 57-degree angle, which forces your arm to stay straight.
  — Malia Griggs, SELF, 29 Sep. 2020
• So maybe the Browns are taking a calculated risk on that.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 24 Mar. 2022
• The calculated ploy sent the now-44-year-old on a journey across college football and the NFL.
  — John Marshall, ajc, 23 Dec. 2020
• Even Meghan’s choice of wardrobe seemed calculated to telegraph the message of a new start.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2021
• Was that a calculated decision that now seems to have worked in such a close race?
  — Abc News, ABC News, 15 Nov. 2022
• The shift in genres wasn’t a calculated move for Lee, or even done out of a sense of restlessness.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2021
• It’s all about calculated risk and just getting the most out of the weekend as possible, and for us, that needs to be a win.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Oct. 2020
• But the moves DiPoto made were clever and calculated, and improved the offense.
  — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 6 Apr. 2022
• This, too, is just out of reach at the moment — as the county’s latest calculated case rate stands at 216.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2022
• Despite his love of the spotlight, the high priest opted to hang back, a calculated effort to play it cool.
  — Alex Bhattacharji, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2024
• But her love for the sport was more of a happy accident than a calculated choice.
  — Emma Healy, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Dec. 2022
• Kennedy was a shrewd member of the House and Senate, and his calculated rise to power was both swift and historic....
  — Philip Terzian, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2020
• Whether you're caught off guard in the city by your feelings or need to release a calculated howl into the void, these are the best places to escape for a sob.
  — Vanessa Arredondo, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Apr. 2022
• The makeup that Halsey did herself was very calculated and well thought out to create these looks.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 25 Oct. 2021
• Bradley can run and go get it now with the abandonment that always had to be a calculated risk in Boston.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Mar. 2021
• Quinn is platinum blonde and armed with a smirk that would wilt the most calculated Disney villain.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2020
• The heiress and reality-TV star grinned and threw her arms in the air in a gesture of calculated abandon.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 25 May 2021
• Those are the kind of calculated risks Watson is willing to take and helps to up his production.
  — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 26 Aug. 2023
• Wilmore and Williams are used to taking calculated risks.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 6 May 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024