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Recent Examples of calculation The addition of revenue sharing in 2025 — paying student-athletes directly with school funds — has added an additional wrinkle to the calculation. — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 22 Oct. 2026 The guarantee derived from a calculation by Hoover’s engineering deputy, Arthur Powell Davis, that so much water flowed down the river that there would always be enough to meet every state’s needs. — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026 The constant calculation of how to manage them without drawing attention, or risking your professional reputation, is another. — Jo Ann Liguori, Flow Space, 21 Oct. 2026 This calculation is one reason why vote-buying attempts can backfire, as a vivid example from Mexico shows. — Kenneth Greene, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for calculation
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Noun
  • Brain games, crosswords and math puzzles are often promoted as ways to sharpen memory, but neurologists warn that generic exercises may not address the specific cause of mental fog.
    — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Among the region’s six largest districts, only Folsom Cordova Unified cleared the halfway mark in English, and none did in math.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 24 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • There is no indication that the parliamentary arithmetic in the City Council has shifted in favor of a head tax this year.
    — Chris Tye, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
  • And those costs are making the arithmetic of life too difficult for everyday people.
    — NBC news, NBC news, 18 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Now, the company is using a scheme that uses laser light to selectively manipulate those qubits that have leaked into other energy states and bring them back to one of the two used for computation.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 20 Oct. 2026
  • At the time, the team utilized a different error-correction method called Helix to demonstrate record-setting logical memory and computation.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026

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“Calculation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calculation. Accessed 26 Oct. 2026.

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