subtraction
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The antidote psychologists prescribe is mental subtraction: deliberately imagining life without what you take for granted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, also decreased.
From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026
“Marketplace is undergoing a rationalization, addition by subtraction, as we reduce our exposure while the risk pool stabilizes,” Zubretsky said, according to a FactSet transcript.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2025
So, in terms of stress, watching baby animals playing is the opposite of a surprise job interview or an on-the-spot subtraction task.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2025
Grace sipped her juice, nibbled her roll, and, amazed, watched Jake blaze through a lightning round of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
For the Ducks to match that, their summer additions will have to add up to more than the subtractions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
But you know, additions are just as important as subtractions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
Norm Eisen, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a legal analyst at CNN, said “the subtractions stand out more than the additions” in Smith’s latest filing.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2024
Solving arithmetic problems, even simple subtractions, involves mental representations whose influence remains to be clarified.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 7, 2024
For just as by the external addition of unities we can step forward from one number to the next, so we can also step back on the same path by repeated subtractions of unities.
From Man or Matter by Ernst Lehrs
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