How to Use compute in a Sentence

compute

verb

• Just does not compute in my mind of what that looks like.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 16 June 2022
• The concept of a ‘revenge game’ does not compute for these guys.
  — oregonlive, 18 Nov. 2022
• The software will ask you simple questions and compute all the math for you.
  — Kristen Doerer, ProPublica, 3 Mar. 2023
• Thin and lightweight, the LG Gram Pro is the perfect choice for computing on the go.
  — PCMAG, 8 Oct. 2024
• The thresholds computed in this way are all less than 3, so the triples relate to the part of the spectrum below 3.
  — Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
• The program that does the detection would compute a value based on the text and be able to compare that to a stored key.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
• This gives the iPad Pro a greater ability to compute AI tasks on-device.
  — Eric Zeman, PCMAG, 15 May 2024
• The next task was to figure out how to compute the Berry curvature using QAC.
  — Spyridon Michalakis, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
• There are seven ways to demonstrate that 2% doesn’t compute.
  — Rick Helfenbein, Forbes, 10 May 2021
• Ivan Sutherland has blazed a truly unique trail through computing over the past six decades.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2023
• More analogies come to mind, right away, as my brain tries to compute what is happening.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 21 Dec. 2022
• Yes, the Big 12 has been anointed as the best men’s basketball conference in the land by those who talk and those who compute.
  — Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 12 Mar. 2023
• The thresholds in the Markov spectrum come from a number c in this sequence by computing sqrt(9 - 4/c^2).
  — Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
• Servers leave them on tables at meal’s end, and customers insert cards, compute tips and sign.
  — Michael Mayo, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Sep. 2019
• The thought bloomed that something had happened to his sister but still wouldn’t fully compute in Phillips' mind.
  — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
• But Winter Olympics sports not named hockey just don’t compute.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 17 Feb. 2022
• By measuring the motions of stars, astronomers hope to compute the orbits of stars around the galaxy—and therefore, the structure of the Milky Way.
  — H.j. McCracken, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2022
• Any of these can be in local hardware or take advantage of cloud compute from Azure.
  — Michael Muchmore, PCMAG, 24 May 2022
• Not anytime in the near future, and for two reasons, one of which is computing power.
  — Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2019
• Theft of resources: This refers to the unauthorized use of computing resources.
  — Dan Branco, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• The amount of debt gets added to the city’s operating tax rate to compute a homeowner’s final city tax bill.
  — Wells Dusenbury, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Sep. 2020
• Before every takeoff, the pilots compute the weight and balance of the airplane.
  — John Cox, USA TODAY, 6 June 2020
• Emphasis was placed on learning how to read, write, compute, and pass tests in English.
  — Kristina Rizga, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2020
• As part of the deal, the software giant would supply computing power needed to train the AI models.
  — Matt O’Brien and Hannah Fingerhut, oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023
• Overloaded with information and access to things that our brains just aren’t built to compute and handle, like all the strains of the world.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023
• My Ars overlords gave me a few days to play around with deepfake software and a $1,000 cloud computing budget.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 16 Dec. 2019
• That required the kind of computing power and resources only available to the West Coast tech giants.
  — Aaron Pressman, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
• Welch used computer models to compute the distance to the object.
  — Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2022
• These functions are easy to compute in one direction and extremely difficult to reverse.
  — John Pavlus, Quanta Magazine, 15 Nov. 2024
• But Google also has unmatched computing infrastructure, unique data from sibling services such as Maps, and more than a quarter-century of brand recognition with consumers.
  — Paresh Dave, WIRED, 20 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024