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Vinegar is firmly in the category of ingredients that are easier to add than subtract.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

But subtract 500 acres for the data center, and you still have 379,679 acres of Nodaway County farmland left.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Then subtract your guaranteed income, such as Social Security and other reliable income sources.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

To calculate it the Fed way, take the stock market’s forward earnings yield and subtract the real, or after-inflation, 10-year Treasury yield.

From Barron's ● May 14, 2026

Thanks to their place- number system, they could add and subtract large numbers in roughly the same way we do today.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

For starters, the policy rate is currently at the lower end of the estimated growth range for neutral, a level that neither stimulates or subtracts from growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

The deficit number Newsom presented Friday subtracts the $17.3 billion in cuts agreed to earlier from the $37.9-billion deficit estimate from January.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2024

Each flight subtracts from the possibility of a bright future for children who now munch on s’mores with stars in their eyes.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2023

Terence Nicholson, the former manager of the gallery and a martial-arts adept, subtracts the pop-culture element with a shadowy video of real kung fu moves.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2023

Still, if one subtracts all the superstitious elements from the subject, there’s something appealing about the small residue that remains.

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

And about $1 billion of any sale would be subtracted to cover the Dodgers’ future commitments on deferred contracts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

The first measurement is subtracted from the second.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026

The bureau also cited an increase in imports -- which are subtracted from GDP -- as a factor in Thursday's data.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

Piper Sandler’s analysts estimated that rising earnings contributed about 18.5 percentage points to that return, while a shrinking price-to-earnings multiple subtracted nearly 8 percentage points.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

To get this variable, Colin took the two people’s average age and subtracted five.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

Gross profit is revenue without subtracting the cost of production expenses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

Then it's the net goal score - taking the goals in favour, and subtracting the goals against.

From BBC ● May 26, 2026

Net exports, a measure of what the country exports minus what it imports, were a drag on growth in the first quarter, subtracting 1.3 percentage point as imports outpaced export.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

This is a non-GAAP metric that adds depreciation and amortization back to earnings, while subtracting gains from the sale of property.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 5, 2026

You can’t remove a three-acre swath from a two-acre field, but nothing prevents you from subtracting three from two.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife