How to Use calculation in a Sentence

calculation

noun

• The book reveals the cold calculations that were behind the government's policies.
• The computer can do millions of calculations each second.
• Careful calculation is required to determine the required amount of fuel.
• His positions are based on political calculation of what voters want to hear.
• According to experts' calculations, that star will explode within two billion years.
• Dove said that the iPhone's calculation of the number of steps taken are an estimate, but the time those steps are registered is precise.
  — Fox News, 2 Feb. 2023
• According to my Girl Math calculations, the service worked out to be free (or at least on Rihanna’s tab).
  — Sheilla Mamona, refinery29.com, 30 Sep. 2024
• And by Fidelity’s calculations, the site is now worth less than 25% of the $44 billion Musk paid for it.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2024
• The calculation is used to measure total audience impressions.
  — Katie Reul, Variety, 3 Feb. 2023
• The two most thrilling showmen in the city, Mr. Browne and Willy Chavarria, lead with theater and emotion, not commerce and calculation.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2023
• Even though the team released him, Bauer will still count against its payroll, which is currently believed to be around $245 million for tax calculation purposes.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2023
• But here’s the thing: 1.5 degrees, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, isn’t based on any scientific calculation.
  — Emma Marris, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2023
• Based on this calculation, the black hole in UHZ1 must be at least 107 times the mass of the Sun.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Nov. 2023
• Some of that has to do with nuances with the calculation of the CPI itself.
  — Gabriel Cortés, CNBC, 16 July 2024
• The same calculation can be done for a benchmark index like the S&P, but there’s a problem.
  — Greg McKenna, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2024
• The deal will value Arm at as much as $54.5 billion at the top end of the range, according to Bloomberg News calculations.
  — Liana Baker, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2023
• This means the majority of the AI calculations take place in the cloud rather than on-device.
  — Eric Zeman, PCMAG, 1 May 2024
• The line for chicken fingers was, per my calculation, fifteen times longer than the line for beer.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• Shoppers have to do rapid real-time calculations about whether a batch is worth their time, and then act fast to secure it.
  — Britt Peterson, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2023
• The researchers did the calculation, assuming the black hole formed about 200 million years after the Big Bang.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Nov. 2023
• The Brusatte calculations assume that 50 percent of the brain cavity in an adult T. rex was filled by the brain.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2023
• Just keep in mind that with a little calculation, almost any of your favorite recipes can be scaled back or batch-cooked to fit the smaller bill.
  — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Dec. 2023
• In a calculation of the homicide clearance rate using cases that were cleared by arrest, the rate is 49%.
  — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Feb. 2024
• With that calculation, the difference would only come to a small fraction of an inch for a mile-high building.
  — Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2023
• Best dates for the following full moon, with his time calculations to follow later, are June 19 to 23.
  — Alex Pulaski, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
• According to Naoyuki’s calculations, the far side of Ganymede, where the ripples are, was once located in the north polar region of the moon.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 4 Sep. 2024
• The calculations added together the cost for four tickets, parking, two beers, two sodas and four hot dogs.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 29 Mar. 2023
• By my calculation, that comes to 17 thousandths of a percent of the federal budget, which this year is $6.4 trillion.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2023
• The event takes place post-peak TV, however, with a new sense of realism and calculation flooding the world’s TV and film industries.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 2 Oct. 2023
• The first calculation of pi was done by Archimedes, a legendary mathematician of the ancient world, in the centuries leading up to the common era.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024