How to Use calculation in a Sentence

calculation

noun

• 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.
• Their contrasting calculations may reflect in part the difference in their ages and life experiences.
  — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2024
• These calculations weigh state-by-state incomes – that’s paychecks plus government assistance – against local costs of living.
  — Jonathan Lansner, Orange County Register, 12 Sep. 2024
• Paying off a large debt, such as your auto loan, lowers your DTI instantly by removing that sum from the calculation.
  — Jim Slavik, Car and Driver, 4 Apr. 2023
• Does pricing use this new information to update their differential value calculation and capture rates?
  — Jeet Mukherjee, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
• Russia’s aggression has transformed the strategic calculation for every country in Europe.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 6 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 same calculation can be done for a benchmark index like the S&P, but there’s a problem.
  — Greg McKenna, Fortune, 4 Sep. 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
• This means the majority of the AI calculations take place in the cloud rather than on-device.
  — Eric Zeman, PCMAG, 1 May 2024
• 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
• The Brusatte calculations assume that 50 percent of the brain cavity in an adult T. rex was filled by the brain.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2023
• Yet analysts say their allegiance is also a political calculation.
  — Megan Janetsky, ajc, 1 Apr. 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
• With that calculation, the difference would only come to a small fraction of an inch for a mile-high building.
  — Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2023
• 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
• According to Naoyuki’s calculations, the far side of Ganymede, where the ripples are, was once located in the north polar region of the moon.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 4 Sep. 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

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024