How to Use compute in a Sentence

compute

verb
  • And as your thighs might know from running a lot of apps and programs on your laptop, computing generates heat.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The move was rightly seen as IBM sharpening its focus on the vital cloud-computing market.
    Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Cloud computing Amazon has been expanding way beyond online shopping, helping to fuel is growth.
    CBS News, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Google’s computing power allowed the algorithm to process nearly every available pixel.
    Alice Park, Time, 1 Jan. 2020
  • But all those advances require staggering amounts of computing power—and electricity—to devise and train algorithms.
    Will Knight, Wired, 21 Jan. 2020
  • In other words, the government can compute a wealth tax with ease only and have a current price in order to charge a fixed percentage of it without having to hire armies of appraisers and auditors.
    Jon Hartley, National Review, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Soon more companies flocked to Amazon for computing infrastructure and, eventually, the software that ran on its machines.
    New York Times, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Still, India’s AI push can’t accelerate without computing power and shared resources.
    Astha Rajvanshi, TIME, 5 Sep. 2024
  • But a Times review of the case file showed that, as one of the department’s technology and computing experts, Bernstein had a key role in the investigation.
    Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Bezos and Amazon sued the Pentagon over a cloud computing defense contract awarded to Microsoft.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Just does not compute in my mind of what that looks like.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 16 June 2022
  • The concept of a ‘revenge game’ does not compute for these guys.
    oregonlive, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The software will ask you simple questions and compute all the math for you.
    Kristen Doerer, ProPublica, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The thresholds computed in this way are all less than 3, so the triples relate to the part of the spectrum below 3.
    Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The program that does the detection would compute a value based on the text and be able to compare that to a stored key.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
  • This gives the iPad Pro a greater ability to compute AI tasks on-device.
    Eric Zeman, PCMAG, 15 May 2024
  • The next task was to figure out how to compute the Berry curvature using QAC.
    Spyridon Michalakis, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
  • There are seven ways to demonstrate that 2% doesn’t compute.
    Rick Helfenbein, Forbes, 10 May 2021
  • Ivan Sutherland has blazed a truly unique trail through computing over the past six decades.
    IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2023
  • More analogies come to mind, right away, as my brain tries to compute what is happening.
    The Indianapolis Star, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Yes, the Big 12 has been anointed as the best men’s basketball conference in the land by those who talk and those who compute.
    Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The thresholds in the Markov spectrum come from a number c in this sequence by computing sqrt(9 - 4/c^2).
    Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
  • But Winter Olympics sports not named hockey just don’t compute.
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 17 Feb. 2022
  • By measuring the motions of stars, astronomers hope to compute the orbits of stars around the galaxy—and therefore, the structure of the Milky Way.
    H.j. McCracken, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Any of these can be in local hardware or take advantage of cloud compute from Azure.
    Michael Muchmore, PCMAG, 24 May 2022
  • Theft of resources: This refers to the unauthorized use of computing resources.
    Dan Branco, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The amount of debt gets added to the city’s operating tax rate to compute a homeowner’s final city tax bill.
    Wells Dusenbury, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Before every takeoff, the pilots compute the weight and balance of the airplane.
    John Cox, USA TODAY, 6 June 2020
  • Emphasis was placed on learning how to read, write, compute, and pass tests in English.
    Kristina Rizga, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2020
  • As part of the deal, the software giant would supply computing power needed to train the AI models.
    Matt O’Brien and Hannah Fingerhut, oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023

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