calculated
IPA: kˈæɫkjʌɫeɪtʌd
adjective
- Arrived at or determined by mathematical calculation; ascertained mathematically.
- Carefully thought out or planned.
- (of a person) Calculating; unemotional and analytical.
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Examples of "calculated" in Sentences
- This paper bore a title calculated to reassure its readers.
- It was a term calculated to gain him sympathy, and with his male friends, and an occasional prostitute, it did.
- By the way, in case you never thought about it, “Reds” is an invidious term calculated to dehumanize radical activists.
- By Robert Fulford, National PostAugust 18, 2009 2: 02 AM A few years ago Paula Findlen, a professor of book with a title calculated to stir unusual interest --
- The head of the Royal College of Midwives has condemned what she called a calculated campaign against home births intended to scare women into believing it was unsafe.
- Members Forum - spokesman Mpati Matabane said the organisation had given the president until February 4 to respond to what he referred to as a calculated plot to exclude them from the new defence system.
- Dyess began doing "weird," "strange" and terrifying things to Mulligan's family, mounting what she described as a calculated campaign of terror that resulted in more than a dozen calls to the sheriff's office by Dyess and the Mulligans.
- You have to admit that The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity is not a title calculated to attract a mass readership; and it is still rather difficult to explain just why a book with such a title is a classic of doctrinal reflection, not just a dissertation on how to run churches.
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