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calculated

 adjective
     
cal‧cu‧lat‧ed
1 a calculated crime or dishonest action is deliberately and carefully planned - used to show disapproval:
a calculated attempt to deceive the American public
2

a calculated risk/gamble

something risky that you do after thinking carefully about what might happen:
The police took a calculated risk in releasing him.
—calculatedly adverb
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