How to Use compute in a Sentence

compute

verb

• Risk is when the odds can be computed.
  — Aditya Vikram Kashyap, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
• The idea of being an arm's length away from art just doesn't compute any more.
  — refinery29.com, 18 June 2018
• The concept of a ‘revenge game’ does not compute for these guys.
  — oregonlive, 18 Nov. 2022
• All of that runs on computing power.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 24 Feb. 2026
• The cloud computing stock added 2%.
  — Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 28 May 2026
• The cloud computing stock added 3%.
  — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 27 May 2026
• Were those already computed or was part of your job to compute them?
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 15 May 2025
• The software will ask you simple questions and compute all the math for you.
  — Kristen Doerer, ProPublica, 3 Mar. 2023
• The bank upgraded the cloud computing name to buy from hold.
  — Fred Imbert, CNBC, 29 May 2026
• That’s what all that computing equipment is in the shed doing.
  — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2025
• Except that amount doesn't compute with what Giuliani has said.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 16 May 2018
• More analogies come to mind, right away, as my brain tries to compute what is happening.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 21 Dec. 2022
• The same logic applies to compute.
  — David Liberman, Fortune, 16 May 2026
• Then an algorithm computes their fastest route to the office.
  — Pete Bigelow, Car and Driver, 21 Feb. 2018
• 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
• Braun urged the jury to start at zero and go from there when computing any damages.
  — City News Service, Daily News, 3 June 2026
• The news may very well be a major achievement in the quantum computing world.
  — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2024
• To compute stress, an engineer needs to describe the shape of an object.
  — Zachary Del Rosario, The Conversation, 18 Apr. 2025
• There was a dispute about the way the average scores were computed.
  — Mike Cason, AL.com, 25 July 2017
• The beauty computing system in my brain fired off, and six fragrances came to mind.
  — Tamim Alnuweiri, InStyle, 14 June 2026
• Look no further than the race for computing power, which is reaching new and bizarre heights.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2018
• Nvidia’s deal with Meta signals a new era in computing power.
  — Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2026
• Ivan Sutherland has blazed a truly unique trail through computing over the past six decades.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Apr. 2023
• But Winter Olympics sports not named hockey just don’t compute.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 17 Feb. 2022
• Nothing about the results computes.
  — Zack Meisel, New York Times, 4 May 2026
• The costs of chips are rising as tech giants shell out billions on computing power.
  — Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 30 Apr. 2026
• Any of these can be in local hardware or take advantage of cloud compute from Azure.
  — Michael Muchmore, PCMAG, 24 May 2022
• Not anytime in the near future, and for two reasons, one of which is computing power.
  — Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2019
• This framework lays out three levels of quantum-computing progress.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Dec. 2025
• Something to compute, hedge, model, attest to and report up.
  — Aditya Vikram Kashyap, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026