How to Use compute in a Sentence
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Risk is when the odds can be computed.
—Aditya Vikram Kashyap, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
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The idea of being an arm's length away from art just doesn't compute any more.
—refinery29.com, 18 June 2018
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The concept of a ‘revenge game’ does not compute for these guys.
—oregonlive, 18 Nov. 2022
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All of that runs on computing power.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 24 Feb. 2026
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The cloud computing stock added 2%.
—Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 28 May 2026
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The cloud computing stock added 3%.
—Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 27 May 2026
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Were those already computed or was part of your job to compute them?
—Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 15 May 2025
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The software will ask you simple questions and compute all the math for you.
—Kristen Doerer, ProPublica, 3 Mar. 2023
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The bank upgraded the cloud computing name to buy from hold.
—Fred Imbert, CNBC, 29 May 2026
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The question is no longer whether space will matter to computing.
—Ben Topor, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
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That’s what all that computing equipment is in the shed doing.
—Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2025
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Except that amount doesn't compute with what Giuliani has said.
—Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 16 May 2018
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More analogies come to mind, right away, as my brain tries to compute what is happening.
—The Indianapolis Star, 21 Dec. 2022
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The same logic applies to compute.
—David Liberman, Fortune, 16 May 2026
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Then an algorithm computes their fastest route to the office.
—Pete Bigelow, Car and Driver, 21 Feb. 2018
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Servers leave them on tables at meal’s end, and customers insert cards, compute tips and sign.
—Michael Mayo, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Sep. 2019
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Braun urged the jury to start at zero and go from there when computing any damages.
—City News Service, Daily News, 3 June 2026
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The news may very well be a major achievement in the quantum computing world.
—Jeff Marks, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2024
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To compute this, players must source a share of their salary and bonus income to the state based on the time that was worked there.
—Nathan Goldman, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
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To compute stress, an engineer needs to describe the shape of an object.
—Zachary Del Rosario, The Conversation, 18 Apr. 2025
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There was a dispute about the way the average scores were computed.
—Mike Cason, AL.com, 25 July 2017
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The beauty computing system in my brain fired off, and six fragrances came to mind.
—Tamim Alnuweiri, InStyle, 14 June 2026
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Look no further than the race for computing power, which is reaching new and bizarre heights.
—Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2018
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Nvidia’s deal with Meta signals a new era in computing power.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2026
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Ivan Sutherland has blazed a truly unique trail through computing over the past six decades.
—IEEE Spectrum, 16 Apr. 2023
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But Winter Olympics sports not named hockey just don’t compute.
—Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 17 Feb. 2022
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Nothing about the results computes.
—Zack Meisel, New York Times, 4 May 2026
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The costs of chips are rising as tech giants shell out billions on computing power.
—Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 30 Apr. 2026
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Any of these can be in local hardware or take advantage of cloud compute from Azure.
—Michael Muchmore, PCMAG, 24 May 2022
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Not anytime in the near future, and for two reasons, one of which is computing power.
—Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2019
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The first stage, which digests the entire prompt, is bound by raw compute.
—Ido Susan, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026
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When finished, Nscale said, the project will be one of the largest compute hubs in the world.
—J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 28 Aug. 2026
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Apple says that doubles compute power for advanced on-device models.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2026
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Great news for fellow Club stock GE Vernova , which is the best way to play this need for compute.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2026
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The plan was to use the Kingdom’s cheap energy, vast land, and sovereign billions to become one of the world’s largest compute hubs.
—Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 7 Sep. 2026
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Whether developers use open-source or proprietary models, both require massive amounts of compute.
—Alexa Lomonaco, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2026
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What would otherwise be redundant compute across every team and every session is reduced through reuse.
—Imran Aftab, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
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That is a capability gap, not a compute gap, and it will not be solved with more token consumption or a bigger context window.
—Rohit Kapoor, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2026
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The next phase should focus on how much unnecessary compute can be removed without lowering the quality.
—Erum Manzoor, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026
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Then OpenAI and Anthropic are turning around and paying them back to rent compute?
—Jack Holmes, Vanity Fair, 1 Sep. 2026
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Step Back The cost of compute has become one of the most important numbers in the US economy.
—Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2026
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The evidence that this wave has plateaued is hiding in our own utilization numbers, where compute routinely runs well below capacity.
—Devendra Rajput, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026
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But the more successful Meta's AI projects are, the greater demand the company will have for compute, Anmuth said.
—Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2026
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This was about a year ago, and you guys were hunkering down, refocusing, and shedding things that lacked focus or took compute away from the priority of making these models better.
—Fortune Editors, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026
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Last month, however, the vice president of deep learning at Nvidia highlighted the opposite, stating that the cost of compute far exceeds that of employees.
—Imran Aftab, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
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Equinix, by contrast, rents out space in its facilities to customers of all shapes and sizes that can run servers on a variety of compute platforms, from Nvidia to AMD.
—Isabel O'Brien,katie Tarasov, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026
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The state is essentially renting compute resource cheaper than the international market would otherwise charge.
—Sajal Singh, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026
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The product pulls together data from several markets that allow users to bet on the cost to rent Nvidia chips to create an overall picture of where AI compute costs are heading.
—Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2026
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O'Connor said Nvidia is the market leader in AI compute, as well as moving quickly on innovation and product development.
—Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2026
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The compute pillar has onboarded more than 38,000 GPUs, and some compute rates are as low as 65 rupees an hour (or less than one dollar).
—Sajal Singh, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026
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When greater capability is needed, private cloud compute extends that same level of privacy protection, ensuring that nobody – not even Apple – can access what’s yours.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2026
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Researchers can use it to run complex simulations, analyze large datasets, and develop compute-intensive AI applications.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2026
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For a company like Anthropic, that’s created a scenario allowing people to spend $200 for a month of Claude premium but use thousands of dollars worth of compute.
—Jack Holmes, Vanity Fair, 1 Sep. 2026
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The investment firm initiated coverage on a slew of compute names, including Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia with overweight ratings.
—Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2026
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Amazon Web Services, the leader in cloud infrastructure, has been rapidly building out data center capacity to meet a surge in compute demand tied to the artificial intelligence boom.
—Annie Palmer, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2026
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The companies’ interest in the Monarch data center shows how the feeding frenzy for compute has reached a new pitch as AI companies look to nail down capacity amid the AI buildout.
—J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 28 Aug. 2026
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One potential reason floated to Semafor by market participants is that compute futures could be manipulated to show a sharp drop in the cost of older chips, which might destabilize AI stocks and debt markets.
—Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2026
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Nvidia has paired its new Rubin GPUs, aimed at the compute-heavy first stage, with third-generation Groq processors purpose-built for low-latency response generation.
—Ido Susan, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026
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Piper also initiated coverage on Broadcom and Arm with overweight ratings, as O'Connor said compute names' valuations are relatively cheap.
—Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2026
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Anthropic has inked a flurry of multibillion-dollar compute deals this year, including with Nscale, Advanced Micro Devices, SpaceX, and Google.
—Ashley Capoot,kate Rooney, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026
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