How to Use compute in a Sentence

compute

1 of 2 verb
  • Risk is when the odds can be computed.
    — Aditya Vikram Kashyap, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • The idea of being an arm's length away from art just doesn't compute any more.
    — refinery29.com, 18 June 2018
  • The concept of a ‘revenge game’ does not compute for these guys.
    — oregonlive, 18 Nov. 2022
  • And good products know when to hand the math to a tool that computes it instead.
    — Mateusz Mucha, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
  • All of that runs on computing power.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The cloud computing stock added 2%.
    — Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 28 May 2026
  • The cloud computing stock added 3%.
    — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 27 May 2026
  • Were those already computed or was part of your job to compute them?
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 15 May 2025
  • The software will ask you simple questions and compute all the math for you.
    — Kristen Doerer, ProPublica, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The bank upgraded the cloud computing name to buy from hold.
    — Fred Imbert, CNBC, 29 May 2026
  • The question is no longer whether space will matter to computing.
    — Ben Topor, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • That’s what all that computing equipment is in the shed doing.
    — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Except that amount doesn't compute with what Giuliani has said.
    — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 16 May 2018
  • More analogies come to mind, right away, as my brain tries to compute what is happening.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The same logic applies to compute.
    — David Liberman, Fortune, 16 May 2026
  • Then an algorithm computes their fastest route to the office.
    — Pete Bigelow, Car and Driver, 21 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • Braun urged the jury to start at zero and go from there when computing any damages.
    — City News Service, Daily News, 3 June 2026
  • The news may very well be a major achievement in the quantum computing world.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2024
  • To compute this, players must source a share of their salary and bonus income to the state based on the time that was worked there.
    — Nathan Goldman, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • To compute stress, an engineer needs to describe the shape of an object.
    — Zachary Del Rosario, The Conversation, 18 Apr. 2025
  • There was a dispute about the way the average scores were computed.
    — Mike Cason, AL.com, 25 July 2017
  • The beauty computing system in my brain fired off, and six fragrances came to mind.
    — Tamim Alnuweiri, InStyle, 14 June 2026
  • Look no further than the race for computing power, which is reaching new and bizarre heights.
    — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Nvidia’s deal with Meta signals a new era in computing power.
    — Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Ivan Sutherland has blazed a truly unique trail through computing over the past six decades.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Apr. 2023
  • But Winter Olympics sports not named hockey just don’t compute.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Nothing about the results computes.
    — Zack Meisel, New York Times, 4 May 2026
  • The costs of chips are rising as tech giants shell out billions on computing power.
    — Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Any of these can be in local hardware or take advantage of cloud compute from Azure.
    — Michael Muchmore, PCMAG, 24 May 2022

compute

2 of 2 noun
  • At the edge, simply adding more compute is rarely the answer.
    — Iri Trashanski, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2026
  • The first stage, which digests the entire prompt, is bound by raw compute.
    — Ido Susan, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026
  • When finished, Nscale said, the project will be one of the largest compute hubs in the world.
    — J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 28 Aug. 2026
  • An investor told us their firm had billions earmarked for compute, with nowhere to put it.
    — Piotr Tomasik, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Satellites are great at collecting raw data but do not carry compute that can process it.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Researchers allocate a small amount of compute to each idea, using it to train a series of models.
    — Billy Perrigo, Time, 14 Oct. 2026
  • But the data centers are built to purpose for one purpose only, that’s selling compute.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Sometimes the right architecture is to move compute to the data rather than data to the compute.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026
  • SpaceX may soon be making $3 billion to $4 billion a month for lending out compute.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Apple says that doubles compute power for advanced on-device models.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2026
  • If more compute had gone to external demand, Azure growth and overall revenue would've bene better.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Great news for fellow Club stock GE Vernova , which is the best way to play this need for compute.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2026
  • This provides up to 40% faster graphics rendering and up to four times faster AI compute.
    — Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Even without a Taiwan event, the compute buildout is already centering there.
    — Stephen Messer, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The plan was to use the Kingdom’s cheap energy, vast land, and sovereign billions to become one of the world’s largest compute hubs.
    — Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 7 Sep. 2026
  • Whether developers use open-source or proprietary models, both require massive amounts of compute.
    — Alexa Lomonaco, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2026
  • What would otherwise be redundant compute across every team and every session is reduced through reuse.
    — Imran Aftab, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
  • That is a capability gap, not a compute gap, and it will not be solved with more token consumption or a bigger context window.
    — Rohit Kapoor, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Up until now, these have been confined to Linux systems and clusters, beefy desktop rigs, and servers that offer private compute in the cloud.
    — Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 15 Oct. 2026
  • The next phase should focus on how much unnecessary compute can be removed without lowering the quality.
    — Erum Manzoor, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026
  • For any executive whose roadmap assumes compute capacity coming online on schedule, that is now a line item.
    — Zev Laine, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The next compute divide may not separate enterprises that possess quantum computers from those that do not.
    — Rajjie Sarmey, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • And if there’s any slowdown in demand for compute or need for compute, that has second, third, and ultimately fourth order impacts on projects that haven’t even been built yet.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Then OpenAI and Anthropic are turning around and paying them back to rent compute?
    — Jack Holmes, Vanity Fair, 1 Sep. 2026
  • On the cost side, Zuckerberg did acknowledge that Muse is currently very compute-intensive.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026
  • CoreWeave — Shares of the compute provider fell 4% premarket as Thursday's rebound appeared to be short-lived.
    — Deena Zaidi, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The puck, connected by an optical tether, handles compute, battery and storage and can be slipped into (or clipped onto) a pocket or bag.
    — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2026
  • That's great for some use cases, but as AI becomes more common and mainstream, the need for local compute is more important than ever.
    — Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Step Back The cost of compute has become one of the most important numbers in the US economy.
    — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The rapid evolution of AI compute will continue to push performance boundaries.
    — Ankit Agarwal, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026

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