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subtraction

noun as in deduction

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Great songwriting is about compression, and the element of subtraction distills what Bono clearly considers to be the most important elements of his life into 90 minutes.

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I’m in a season of life where I no longer make health resolutions focused on subtraction.

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Powell said his opportunity this season was “addition by subtraction.”

The team plied their subject AI models with questions drawn from a popular collection of more than 8,000 grade school arithmetic problems testing schoolchildren’s understanding of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

But in light of the Supreme Court’s decision, those subtractions make the case that much stronger.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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