How to Use calculable in a Sentence
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Going back to taking any amount of calculable risk, big or small, is a weird feeling.
—Dr. Syra Madad, ABC News, 13 June 2021
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And those are just the calculable costs of fake influencer marketing.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 25 July 2019
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Suiting up again would re-expose Kaepernick to a vein of criticism that has been reserved for mere mortals whose careers are defined by calculable outcomes on the field.
—Ben Shpigel, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2019
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Certainty became fully calculable, knowledge of the future knowable in the present.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2020
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Habitable worlds would not be chance events; their existence would be a calculable outcome if a planetary system has the right ingredients.
—Quanta Magazine, 3 Nov. 2021
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Every Wordle move presents a chance to find a mathematically calculable best choice or choices, at least on average.
—Pradeep Mutalik, Quanta Magazine, 25 Oct. 2022
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Cultural values sometimes come into play about whether to consider a more subtle prognosis: quality of life, or years lived or, like, which person is somehow more valuable, if that was even calculable.
—Adam Rogers, Wired, 23 Aug. 2021
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For Belarusians, the shift from gray to black, from autocracy to totalitarianism, was calculable in lives.
—New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022
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Because running is such a complex motion, there’s no obvious and easily calculable answer.
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 29 June 2020
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The need for new infrastructure to support population growth is readily calculable.
—David Siegel, WSJ, 18 June 2018
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Those phenomena had simplified, calculable equations — so why shouldn’t wrinkles have a simplified equation too?
—Quanta Magazine, 8 Apr. 2015
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But string theory does not predict a unique set of scattering amplitudes (having instead a vast landscape of possible solutions), and so the search for a calculable and predictive theory of graviton scattering would hit a barrier.
—Quanta Magazine, 14 Mar. 2014
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This expands the possibility of what can be considered calculable—beyond the reach of conventional computing’s binary bits, which can only consider two positions: on/off or zero/one.
—Nitin Rakesh, Forbes, 13 June 2022
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Surgery was a definitive intervention at a critical moment in a person’s life, with a clear, calculable, frequently transformative outcome.
—Atul Gawande, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2017
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Physicists use quantum field theory to calculate essential formulas called scattering amplitudes, some of the most basic calculable features of reality.
—Quanta Magazine, 12 Nov. 2020
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