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Vinegar is firmly in the category of ingredients that are easier to add than subtract.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

A surprising surge in the trade deficit is expected to subtract an unusually large 1.0 to 1.5 percentage points from GDP, masking the strength of the underlying economy.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

You could, however, add to or subtract from this list to build your own.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026

And if you subtract zero from zero, you still have zero.

From "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie

To calculate enterprise value, Strategy adds the market value of its common stock to the principal amount of its debt and the par value of its preferred stock, then subtracts cash.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 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

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

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

But if you subtracted 1.5% a year for fund fees — which is what used to be normal — you’d end up with less than $17,500.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

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 first measurement is subtracted from the second.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 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

On aggregate, the money foreign investors have put into Indian markets in the past decade - after subtracting what they sold or withdrew - is nearing zero.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

The NAV represents the fair value of the underlying assets, calculated by subtracting the fund’s liabilities from its total assets and dividing the remainder by the number of outstanding shares.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 25, 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

He really wanted to ask her what had happened, but even with all the adding and subtracting he knew that they weren’t friends.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman