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Businesses pay a refundable tax on raw materials, collect a tax from customers, subtract the refundable portion, then pay an adjusted VAT: What a pain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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

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

Outside the culvert where Enrique hides, trains clang and crash as they add and subtract cars, forming trains that are nearly a mile long.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

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 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

Regardless, when the Commerce Department calculates the gross domestic product, its measure of economic growth, it adds exports to the national figures for government and private investment and spending, and subtracts imports.

From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 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

Bauermeister filed a brief a week ago arguing that the full amount of the settlement paid by Campbell Hall should be subtracted from any award the jury decides Scott must pay to Dylan.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Meanwhile longtime holdings like Fannie Mae and Universal Music Group subtracted from his performance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 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

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

From Science Daily ● May 18, 2026

When you added them all up and then subtracted, you might be left with only the children, and perhaps with Albert Einstein and an old violinist or sculptor somewhere.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 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

Excluding AI, fixed investment declined 10% in the fourth quarter, subtracting one percentage point from overall GDP growth.

From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 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