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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
calculate .
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"The setup is familiar, but Arvin calculates everything - the mystery, the office politics, the anti-death-penalty demonstrations, the race riots, the fiendishly escalating threats - so neatly that the whole package is an offer you can't refuse."
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Yet Putin calculates that he can mock us because, as his defence minister cheerfully puts it: "The west keeps buying our energy."
Courtesy of the Calgary Herald Jeff 2007
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For his part, Berzin calculates that just one 1,000 megawatt power plant using his system could produce more than 40 million gallons of biodiesel and 50 million gallons of ethanol a year.
Using algae to clean power plant exhaust Edward Willett 2006
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For his part, Berzin calculates that just one 1,000 megawatt power plant using his system could produce more than 40 million gallons of biodiesel and 50 million gallons of ethanol a year.
Archive 2006-01-08 Edward Willett 2006
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His name calculates to 666 in both English and Hebrew;
WalesOnline - Home 2009
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Yield to call calculates the yield based on the assumption that the bond issuer will redeem the bond at the first redemption date.
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002
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Yield to call calculates the yield based on the assumption that the bond issuer will redeem the bond at the first redemption date.
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002
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Whether Amundsen "calculates" or not makes very little difference; his are all misses in any case.
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Whether Amundsen "calculates" or not makes very little difference; his are all misses in any case.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 1 Roald Amundsen 1900
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Whether Amundsen "calculates" or not makes very little difference; his are all misses in any case.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-12 — Volume 1 and Volume 2 Roald Amundsen 1900
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