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What version of Sitecore are you on?
I've got the same problem with Sitecore 10.1 with a droplist field. It converts the fieldname to <fieldname>_t when querying instead of <fieldname>_s, even though the config is correct. It's not a calculated field, just a standard dynamic field.
Take a look at your search log output - you can see sitecore ...
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