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He lasted two days as a Sea Org recruiter, meaning, he writes, “contractually, I owe the Church of Scientology a billion years of labor minus two days.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
The nuclear clock achieved a relative precision of approximately 10 to the power of minus 15, equivalent to an error of roughly one second over 30 million years.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
In fact the 35-year-old has effectively cost the Seagulls minus £3m - and been involved in 86 Premier League goals over two spells.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Wealth is measured as a family’s assets, like stocks and home equity, minus their liabilities, like mortgages and credit-card debt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
I had to be very careful of my fingers when the temperature was below minus twenty, especially if the wind blew, for I could pick up a frostbite amazingly fast.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
That’s a slight pullback from March, and the underlying data had both pluses and minuses.
From Barron's ● May 5, 2026
Looking further ahead, they weigh the pluses and minuses of retiring early or late and pros and cons of pursuing and exploring a new postretirement job or career.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
There are the pluses from capital gains and there are the minuses from capital losses.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2025
So, as an introvert, what are the pluses and minuses there?
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2025
Who even cared about the minuses on his old conduct grades by now?
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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