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“Liquid adds, it doesn’t subtract, and every girl I’ve ever met wanted a smaller nose.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

If we subtract the dividend yield from the forward FCF yield, we can compare companies’ expected FCF “headroom.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

But none of this should subtract from the bigger takeaway.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

“Yes, I can add, and subtract and multiply and divide. Cain’t do much more than that, though. You need somebody to do more math than that back there sorting out the celery and the onions?”

From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles

To settle the transfer, the U.S. bank subtracts the funds from Bank A's balance and adds them to Bank B's.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

“The Accountant 2” subtracts everything that worked about the 2016 original, a marvelous romp that starred Ben Affleck as Christian Wolff, a neurodivergent numbers geek who freelances as an auditor and assassin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2025

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

The floating ice climbs to an annual peak of more than 7 million square miles in September — but then subtracts an area nearly the size of Russia by the following February.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 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 subtracted a secret number from the carefully measured weights of some of the masses used in the experiment.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

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 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

Maize originated, litis postulated, in a strange, wholesale mutation of teosinte, to which Indians added and subtracted features through intensive breeding.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

The profit is calculated by assessing the value of output and subsidies and subtracting the cost of production and finance.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

For most people, it comes down to either taking an extended break, like a sabbatical; somehow subtracting duties from their current role; or transitioning to a less stressful position.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 4, 2026

Excluding the AI categories, fixed investment was down 10%, subtracting a percentage point from GDP growth, and adding to the negative effect of the shutdown.

From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026

It also incorporates more of people’s financial circumstances than common rules of thumb for equity allocation, such as the classic 60/40 division of stocks and bonds or subtracting your age from 100.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026

Then all the numbers would come out right, and figuring out the child’s age would be a simple matter of subtracting – 4 from 2.

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