How to Use calculated in a Sentence

calculated

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• 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
• 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
• The direction that the book took was not a calculated one.
  — Maris Kreizman, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2020
• But not all of the calculated excesses rub her the wrong way.
  — Malcolm Harris, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2020
• In all four attacks, the killer whales teamed up to hunt whale sharks in a calculated manner.
  — New Atlas, 29 Nov. 2024
• 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
• Paddling a kayak in the ocean is always a calculated risk.
  — David Brown, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 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
• Next the special effects people made a program that displays the calculated speed on the readout in the scene.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 31 May 2018
• Few of us, however, think of our choice of where to live in retirement as a calculated risk.
  — Joseph Coughlin, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
• Leaders also must have the courage to take calculated risks.
  — Gina Mastantuono, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
• Mare’s toughness felt a little calculated in the first couple of episodes.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 1 June 2021
• But the retreat was a calculated one, according to the Ukrainian Center for Defense Strategies.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Jan 2025