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How to use the word calculated in a Sentence?

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What is outrageous to me is not only Starbucks’ anti-union activities and their willingness to break the law, it is their calculated and intentional efforts to stall, stall and stall.

Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What is outrageous to me is not only Starbucks anti-union activities and their willingness to break the law, it is their calculated and intentional efforts to stall, stall and stall, what Starbucks is doing is not only trying to break unions, but even worse. They are trying to break the spirit of workers who are struggling to improve their lives. And that is unforgivable.

Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is a problem that the LCA results are seemingly easy to understand, but it takes an expert to understand how the results were calculated and why they are different.

Tomas Ekvall

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Based on the speed of color evolution seen in hummingbirds, we calculated it would take 6 (million to) 10 million years for this drastic pink-gold color shift to evolve in a single species.

Field Museum senior research scientist

Found on CNN
1 year ago

His tones were calculated, cold, but very determined. He felt the exact same way that I did.

Jeremy Bertino

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The ICBM-class ballistic missile launched this time could have a range of over 15,000 km when calculated based on the flight distance of this ICBM, it depends on the weight of the warhead, but in that case, the US mainland would be included in the range.

Yasukazu Hamada

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Multiple days in a row, the mostly mail in ballots counted continue to break in higher DEM margins than we calculated. This has narrowed our victory window.

Bridget Bennett/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If I were one of [those] two people auditioning and Joy had said that, I would take it as a shot, joy is very intentional. She's very smart, and she's very intentional with her hits. When she attacks someone, it's very calculated and intentional.

Farah Griffin

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

When we calculated how many calories( the food tributes contained) it was so high that even if they were having( these feasts) twice a month that could not give the signatures I was seeing, that meant the majority of what these people were eating had to be mostly plant based with a small amount of animal protein. There were some people who fell in the zone of a modern vegan.

Sam Leggett

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is a case of calculated deception driven, I think, by her narcissistic behavior, and it really had an impact on this community and nationwide as far as that goes.

Shasta County Sheriff Michael Johnson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Putin was watching, he calculated that this would be the time he could actually affect an invasion and the consequences wouldn’t be that high, putin has calculated that the resolve to stand up for law and order, international norms, to take a stand for democracy and what it means to follow what we’ve seen during the post-WWII area, those things are really being challenged right now.

August Pfluger

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Russia has now played most of its escalatory cards, and doesn't have many tools left for resolving this crisis in its favor. The nuclear alert seems like more an act of frustration than a calculated tactical move, if the nuclear alert was intended to coerce the United States and Europe into tempering economic sanctions or abandoning Ukraine, it failed. If anything, it has served to further inflame world opinion against Russia.

Todd Sechser

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Putin is a cold-blooded, typical Russian autocratic leader and a very calculated risk-taker. He’s simply executing a plan that he has been hatching for 20 years.

Rebekah Koffler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We talked to many many very qualified candidates for this job in both pro and college football, what resonated with us was how excited everyone was for this job. Even in the last two weeks, there were people that were calling trying to get into this job. Steve was very calculated and made sure that we did n’t rush this process. There were times when I was like, let’s go, let’s push this forward and Steve was, ‘ Hey, let’s make sure we do this as thoroughly and correctly as we can. ’.

Chris Grier

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was a calculated risk, but I didn't see the choice at that time, to be honest. I just felt I'd regret not committing one way or another.

Adar Poonawalla

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's quite specifically calculated, that whole rotation [ of containers ], when that is broken one time, it's really difficult to get back to normal after that.

Osmo Lahtinen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Judicial robes aren’t bulletproof, your threat was despicable and it was calculated to instill a maximum amount of fear.

Trevor McFadden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The risks investors are willing to take are quite calculated right now (by) trying to modify bets based on how high inflation is going to rise against how temporary the rise will be.

Bert Colijn

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

It was calculated, it was something we kind of looked at and talked about before we did it. It worked out for the best.

Joe Tate

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Elon Musk is very calculated, people are angry.

Eloisa Marchesoni

Found on CNN
2 years ago

IMF staff calculated that a coordinated G20 fiscal stimulus in green infrastructure, if it is done in a coordinated manner, would deliver two-thirds more in growth ... than if each country acts on its own.

Kristalina Georgieva

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I think we need to make a careful, calculated decision about what more to do to deal with this Coronavirus. We're throwing money at the search for a vaccine, which is the wise thing to do.

Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We're facing a calculated risk, knowing that the epidemiological curve could rise again.

Giuseppe Conte

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

They're indicating that they're going to measure costs and benefits in a very narrow way, which will reduce the level of benefit calculated as compared to the costs.

Richard Lazarus

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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