calculated

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verb

past tense of calculate
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as in estimated
to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement I calculate that this job will take another two days to finish

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as in relied
to place reliance or trust we know we can calculate on you following through, whatever the assignment

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Recent Examples of calculated
Adjective
The commissioners at Fort Laramie—a calculated mix of military men and Indian rights activists—hoped to make the Lakotas accept a Great Sioux Reservation and to push the Northern Arapahos, Crows, and Northern Cheyennes onto reservations as well. Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025 While the executive team was already reworking operations and technology priorities, many of the decisions required long-term investments and a willingness to take calculated risks that only the board could approve. Elena Rodighiero, Harvard Business Review, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
The researchers also calculated that one of their supercapacitors could store around 10 kilowatt-hours—enough to serve about one third of an average American’s daily energy use—though the number is only theoretical. Perri Thaler, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Oct. 2025 The consensus seems to be that OpenAI’s GPT-5 did a fantastic job discovering likely solutions to the difficult Erdős problems…solutions that someone else had calculated. Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for calculated
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Adjective
  • Maybe the slower, more considered pace of life is exactly what is required to create a more sustainable place, and a more sustainable future.
    Emma John, AFAR Media, 20 Aug. 2025
  • At a time where equality is treated as an imposition on the other, Claire’s careful and considered story feels more relevant than ever.
    Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 6 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The alternative proposition is emergence, which states that qualitatively novel properties are found in more complex systems that can never, even in principle, be derived or computed from fundamental laws, principles, and entities.
    Big Think, Big Think, 16 Oct. 2025
  • To check that, Lai and his colleagues computed the most optimal task allocations, schedules, and motions in a few simplified work cells and compared those with results delivered by RoboBallet.
    Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
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  • Melissa generated torrential rains, causing flooding with more than 12 inches of rain estimated, CNN reported.
    Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The four murals went to three separate buyers and are estimated to have collectively fetched $20 million, though no sum has been officially disclosed.
    News Desk, Artforum, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Like other key aspects of the agreement, that influx did not go exactly as planned.
    Hana Kiros, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The bill is expected to support the addition of 10,000 new ICE agents over the next five years, with recruitment and onboarding planned to reach full integration by FY 2029.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In 1898, architect René Binet unveiled his design for the Porte Monumentale, a grand three-legged archway intended to serve as the entrance portal to the upcoming 1900 Paris Exposition.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Qualcomm calls the new chips AI200 and AI250, and they’re intended for generative AI inference in data centers.
    Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • From Jason Voorhees terrorizing all visitors of Camp Crystal Lake to Michael Myers persistently haunting the inhabitants of Haddonfield, Illinois, horror movies have relied on the silence and mystique of their main antagonists for decades.
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
  • As humans influenced forest composition with fire since the last Ice Age, the creatures who relied on woodlands thrived, especially birds.
    Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The tactic, analysts say, is deliberate – part of a broader effort to wear down Taiwan’s air force, degrade equipment and exhaust Taiwan’s personnel.
    Eryk Michael Smith, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Every detail feels deliberate yet easy and unforced.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Higginbotham figured one way to unpack his journey would be to talk about it even more.
    Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Saudi heritage and national pride figured across many collections, with geometric rooflines a graphic detail on the loose men’s alterna-suiting from Noble & Fresh, and odes to various regions spelled out in spirals of Arabic characters on Hindamme’s second-skin dresses.
    Miles Socha, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2025

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