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The cost of goods — minus food and energy — rose 0.7% in the 12 months ended in September.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026

Net worth is a measure of a household’s assets minus debts — reflecting the value of what they own, which has the potential to compound in value.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2026

The core profit margin at the cars business was now seen at between minus 0.5 percent to plus 0.5 percent in 2026, BMW said, meaning it could make an operating loss in its key activity.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

Some analysts predict McDonald’s will have a minus sign in front of the same measure when it unveils third-quarter results Wednesday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

Thus, we might say that a 95 percent confidence interval for the percentage of voters favoring candidate X is 45 percent plus or minus 6 percent.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

Ponderously disjointed, unnecessarily long, and emotionally distant are its minuses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

That’s a slight pullback from March, and the underlying data had both pluses and minuses.

From Barron's ● May 5, 2026

"The plusses outweigh the minuses," Maguire told BBC Sport.

From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026

There are the pluses from capital gains and there are the minuses from capital losses.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2025

Mr. Ibis pushed his lower lip upward, then let his head bob from side to side, as if it were on a spring, weighing the pluses and minuses, seeing things from both points of view.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman