Definitions
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- adverb   In a 
calculating manner. 
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- adverb in a calculating manner
 
Etymologies
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Examples
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Donovan, who had come to admire FDR proposed to the president the creation of a spy and sabotage service based on Britain's MI6, "with men calculatingly reckless with disciplined daring."
The Spymaster's Spymaster Andrew Roberts 2011
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Shaw can be a compellingly cool performer, but he's never calculatingly crooner-hip in the Michael Bublé manner.
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They have been been calculatingly responsible, because of the shut Rafa gate, for the apartheid, murders, and genocide in Palestine, while telling the world with a straight face, that they are striving to implement peace.
Egypt: After the revolution, the ballot box | Observer editorial 2011
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Or are they, in fact, fully capable of making decisions about their futures, sometimes calculatingly so, with optimism, hopefulness, and resilience?
In Gordath Wood: Writer Patrice Sarath » My nemesis, Caitlin Flanagan, is at it again 2010
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One of the benefits of not knowing anything about a film is just experiencing its pitch and this does it calculatingly well.
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McGwire finally, reluctantly, belatedly and calculatingly came to the conclusion that the shadow could not disappear, until ironically, he turned on the light.
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McGwire finally, reluctantly, belatedly and calculatingly came to the conclusion that the shadow could not disappear, until ironically, he turned on the light.
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While it was reassuring to think that they hadn't been in danger, the thought that someone had been so calculatingly determined was terrifying.
Broken Symmetry Angela Brett 2010
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And so I will quietly and calculatingly go on a journey, go through the appropriate humiliation of finding the right people, then reemerge as the untouched, untouchable child-woman again.
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Murmuring "sorry" to the harried maitre d 'and stopping briefly to chat with a fan, the London-born Ms. Panjabi, who plays the calculatingly seductive, street-smart P.I. Kalinda Sharma on the hit series, surveyed the block.
 
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