How to Use calculator in a Sentence

calculator

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  • To find out how much your care is worth, enter the ZIP code in the calculator.
    Ash-Har Quraishi, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Not by much, but there’s enough inaccuracy for eclipse calculators to notice that something is going awry.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Select ‘levy calculator’ at the top left side of the page.
    Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer, 3 Nov. 2022
  • And to cap it off, there may even be a new calculator app.
    Kyle Barr / Gizmodo, Quartz, 3 May 2024
  • Go ahead and get out your calculator or use Python and plug in all the values.
    WIRED, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Like the arrival of the calculator in math classes years ago, the tool is not going away.
    David Risher, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2023
  • This is how much some of the calculators can cost from Walmart.
    Katie Wiseman, The Courier-Journal, 24 July 2024
  • The Points Guy has a calculator to compare the two ways to purchase a ticket.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 8 Sep. 2024
  • If your child has more than one calculator on the cell phone, that’s trouble.
    Brittany Wallman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Jan. 2023
  • There’s a built in calculator: type any equation to see the answer and hit Enter to copy it to the clipboard.
    Justin Pot, Popular Science, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Or pulling out a calculator to crunch the numbers in the Woods Center report.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
  • The calculator, spellcheck, Google, Wikipedia, YouTube.
    Jocelyn Gecker, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2023
  • This is the second year Kayak has had a refund calculator.
    Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2023
  • For a precise time of when to look in the sky, use The Old Farmer’s Almanac’s visible planets calculator.
    Megan Marples, CNN, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Next, maybe Apple will finally bring the calculator app to the tablet.
    Julian Chokkattu Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Now, the easiest way to find the moon phase you were born under is to use an online moon phase calculator, such as this one, and punch in your date of birth.
    Aliza Pelto, Women's Health, 10 Sep. 2023
  • One calculator estimates that a 35-year-old who freezes ten mature eggs has a 69% chance of at least one live birth.
    Kim Elsesser, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The simplest way to compare sizes is to use an online calculator.
    Wes Siler, Outside Online, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Check out the stress calculator before booking your next flight at flightsfinder.com.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 15 Oct. 2023
  • And there are some helpful calculators that can help you get started.
    The New York Times, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Consult the Farmer's Almanac moonrise and moonset calculator to see when the full moon will appear in your area.
    Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE.com, 13 June 2022
  • That’s equal to burning 1,655 railcars of coal, using the same EPA calculator.
    Eric Niiler, Wired, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Their prices start at $11.40, but there is no price calculator to quickly estimate the cost.
    Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Step 1: Calculate the price Most websites have a price calculator on their front page.
    Ascend Agency, Baltimore Sun, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Think a graphing calculator (yep, the kids are still using those TIs), three-ring binders, and textbook covers.
    Brigitt Earley, Glamour, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Yet, race is still embedded as a factor in the calculator.
    Claretta Bellamy, NBC News, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The best way to get those estimates is to visit a college’s net price calculator and run the numbers for yourself.
    Tara Siegel Bernard, New York Times, 8 July 2023
  • America’s teenagers have a math problem – one that can’t be solved with a few punches on a calculator.
    Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Apr. 2023
  • To figure out the cost, the company has a baggage calculator on its website.
    John Tufts, The Courier-Journal, 23 Feb. 2024
  • For years, iPad users have had to download third-party calculator apps or access a web browser just to do math.
    Emma Roth, The Verge, 23 Apr. 2024

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