How to Use calculable in a Sentence

calculable

adjective
  • The year has been, by almost all calculable metrics, a bad one for the news.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week Us, theweek, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Going back to taking any amount of calculable risk, big or small, is a weird feeling.
    — Dr. Syra Madad, ABC News, 13 June 2021
  • The loss of wages of so many people caught in Ozer’s web is not calculable.
    — Steve Belanger, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Some rationalists tried to come up with a calculable method to answer the question.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
  • And those are just the calculable costs of fake influencer marketing.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 25 July 2019
  • A lot is not fully calculable now, and some problems haven’t presented themselves.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2021
  • While comfort can be subjective, support is a little more calculable.
    — Rozalynn S. Frazier, Travel + Leisure, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Judges are sometimes reluctant to enforce them when monetary damages for a breach are calculable.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 11 Nov. 2025
  • That moment has a very specific, very real, and entirely calculable cost.
    — Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • Seafloor depth is calculable using the time difference between creating a sound and receiving its echo.
    — Kurt Snibbe, Orange County Register, 10 June 2024
  • Thus, seeking to remake vibes into a quantified and calculable instrument is the antithesis of what vibes are all about.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025
  • Seafloor depth is calculable using the time difference between creating a sound and receiving its echo.
    — Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 8 May 2026
  • If the interaction is through a Z-boson, the strength is completely calculable.
    — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 3 Feb. 2011
  • For those who see college as a waste of money, general education courses are a calculable loss on future income.
    — Kelly Ritter, The Conversation, 17 July 2025
  • Certainty became fully calculable, knowledge of the future knowable in the present.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • The layperson tends to assume that a precise and fully calculable means exists to produce a mental health diagnosis to an ironclad nth degree.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • Because running is such a complex motion, there’s no obvious and easily calculable answer.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 29 June 2020
  • 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
  • The value of commercial real estate has reached higher peaks every cycle in calculable history.
    — Joshua Pollard, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Of what fantastical, phenomenal and calculable things Helm is made!
    — Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
  • All that remains is determining their modest seed, which is neither entirely within their control nor a calculable preference.
    — Tim Graham, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Those phenomena had simplified, calculable equations — so why shouldn’t wrinkles have a simplified equation too?
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Apr. 2015
  • Everywhere in the world, local solar times would be abolished to make room for new mean times that, given their uniformity, would be easily comparable and calculable.
    — Vanessa Ogle, Foreign Affairs, 12 Oct. 2015
  • The need for new infrastructure to support population growth is readily calculable.
    — David Siegel, WSJ, 18 June 2018
  • For Belarusians, the shift from gray to black, from autocracy to totalitarianism, was calculable in lives.
    — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022
  • The challenge with both of these factors—the two most common in oversimplified risk tolerance short cuts—is that they are regularly ignored by the third and often most powerful (albeit least calculable) factor that gauges your gut.
    — Tim Maurer, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Complex supply chains and poor communication between brands and innovators on scaled solutions with calculable benefits make for a noisy and confusing ‘ecosystem’.
    — Brooke Roberts-Islam, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • 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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