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cipher, compute, figure, reckon, work out
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Last weekend, city officials announced a grim formula for calculating rewards leading to the children's killers: $25,000 for each child younger than 10, for a total of $100,000. — Hollie Silverman, CNN, "A St. Louis man is arrested for one of at least a dozen fatal shootings involving children," 30 Aug. 2019 Accurate census data also helps to ensure fair representation for residents, since population figures are used in calculating the number of seats a state gets in the House of Representatives. — John Laidler, BostonGlobe.com, "Somerville striving to count everyone in 2020 Census," 27 Aug. 2019 Neither Statcast nor TrackMan was used in calculating that figure. — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, "Astros' Yordan Álvarez's batting practice home run damages scoreboard at Minute Maid Park," 24 Aug. 2019 The falloff is evident even when using the administration’s preferred method for calculating growth rates. — New York Times, "Trump Says He’s Exploring ‘Various Tax Reductions,’ and the Economic Data He Loves Shows Why," 20 Aug. 2019 Instead, cells are left to devise their own strategies for calculating precisely where to go and what to become. — Quanta Magazine, "For Embryo’s Cells, Size Can Determine Fate," 12 Aug. 2019 The balances that are reported to the credit bureaus, and used in calculating your scores, are typically your statement balances. — Liz Weston | Nerdwallet.com, oregonlive.com, "Liz Weston: What can a credit limit increase request do to my credit score?," 4 Aug. 2019 Jurors had to get into some challenging weeds in calculating who gets what. — Staff And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, "'Dark Horse' lawsuit: Katy Perry, record company owe $2.78 million for stealing song," 1 Aug. 2019 In calculating days of medication, the AP used 50 MMEs as a daily dosage. — Fortune, "As the Opioid Crisis Grew, Manufacturers Supplied and Doctors Prescribed Stronger Pills," 24 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'calculate.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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