subtract

On the whiteboard are the words: subtract, difference, count back, regroup.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

The Power Four — the Big Ten, SEC, Big 12 and ACC — plus the Big East comprise 79 schools and continue to add rather than subtract.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026

There’s no one-size-fits-all approach, but the rule of 120 stipulates that you can subtract your age from 120 to give you an approximate weighting in equities that would match your age.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 20, 2026

The tariffs are expected to subtract $3 trillion from the deficit over 10 years, according to the latest Congressional Budget Office estimate.

From Barron's ● Jan. 6, 2026

You've got to subtract an additional year from the total to get the right answer.

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

The supplemental poverty measure includes both cash and noncash benefits and subtracts necessary expenses such as taxes and medical expenses.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 12, 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

Abbott secretly subtracted a hidden value from measurements involving some of the experimental masses.

From Science Daily ● May 18, 2026

For starters, some 30,000 jobs were subtracted from the February employment report because of nurses’ strikes.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 2, 2026

The BEA estimated that the reduction in government services subtracted about 1 percentage point from real GDP growth in the fourth quarter.

From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026

Medicare premiums are determined by overall medical costs and are subtracted from your Social Security payments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

The five-digit numbers from the sheet are subtracted from the five-digit numbers of the coded message.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

The net score is created by taking the total number of VAR interventions in a club's favour, and subtracting those that have gone against them.

From BBC ● May 26, 2026

That is similar to a 206,000-barrel daily increase announced in March and April, subtracting the portion allotted to the UAE.

From Barron's ● May 3, 2026

Start by subtracting your guaranteed income sources, such as your wife’s pension, from your projected expenses.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 17, 2026

First Momma started writing in a notebook and adding things up and subtracting things, then Dad and Joey and Rufus and me started driving all over Flint buying things for the Brown Bomber.

From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis