How to Use calculated in a Sentence

calculated

adjective

• Those who share your passion to do change and to take calculated risk.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2025
• Her look is very, very calculated.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2026
• Singling him out seems very calculated at this stage.
  — Peter Baugh, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
• In that sense, there is a calculated risk involved.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
• Was that a calculated decision that now seems to have worked in such a close race?
  — Abc News, ABC News, 15 Nov. 2022
• The Dodgers move to add Lauer was a calculated one.
  — Doug Padilla, Oc Register, 8 June 2026
• Isak was a calculated gamble, which is funny to think of now.
  — The Athletic Uk Staff, New York Times, 17 June 2025
• Khosla met this challenge in a calculated way.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2026
• Instead, teams have to start taking more calculated risks and learn when to spend and when to wait.
  — Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 22 May 2025
• All this might suggest that it was done with cold, calculated planning.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2020
• But her love for the sport was more of a happy accident than a calculated choice.
  — Emma Healy, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Dec. 2022
• Willing to take calculated risks to achieve team goals and success.
  — Brent Daub, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
• Gone are the blind walls that made entering the park after dark feel like a calculated risk.
  — Inga Saffron, Philly.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• Philip seems to sense -- or takes a calculated risk -- that Stan won't shoot them, or arrest them.
  — Kristi Turnquist, OregonLive.com, 31 May 2018
• For as long as that remains the case, some brands may still see value in taking a calculated risk.
  — Karen Gilchrist, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2025
• Even Meghan’s choice of wardrobe seemed calculated to telegraph the message of a new start.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2021
• Mare’s toughness felt a little calculated in the first couple of episodes.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 1 June 2021
• 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
• Few of us, however, think of our choice of where to live in retirement as a calculated risk.
  — Joseph Coughlin, Forbes, 3 Oct. 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
• The makeup that Halsey did herself was very calculated and well thought out to create these looks.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 25 Oct. 2021
• An investor looks at the risks, looks at the rewards, and makes a calculated decision.
  — Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
• The move could be seen as a calculated effort to project strength, according to Gómez.
  — Abby Dodge, CBS News, 2 May 2026
• Hardly anything could be more calculated to provoke the breakdown of trust in a system of law.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 18 Aug. 2020
• 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
• Of course this was a calculated power play, not a bureaucratic botch.
  — U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2026
• In recent years, the brand has shown a greater willingness to take calculated risks with their catalog.
  — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 9 Mar. 2026
• In these cases, job hugging becomes a calculated pause.
  — Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
• His rap is smooth and calculated, something that likely came from a bit more forethought and revision than a rap off the top of his head.
  — Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com, 8 July 2018
• The trip to the market becomes a terrifying act of courage, a calculated risk.
  — Barbara F. Walter, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2022