subtract
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But subtract 500 acres for the data center, and you still have 379,679 acres of Nodaway County farmland left.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 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
You could, however, add to or subtract from this list to build your own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026
Earnings accounting doesn’t subtract capex when the money is actually spent.
From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 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
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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 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
Singleton said that if legislation subtracts from how he sees freedom and liberty, “then I’m there to stand in opposition to those things and push back.”
From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2024
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
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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
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
“What is additive to the U.S.’s GDP, of course, may be subtracted from oil importers’ real GDP, all else equal.”
From Barron's ● May 4, 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
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Counting gains in volatile equities when they go up while subtracting everyday operating costs isn’t analysis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Gross profit is revenue without subtracting the cost of production expenses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
Then it's the net goal score - taking the goals in favour, and subtracting the goals against.
From BBC ● May 26, 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
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
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Number and Operations: Fractions
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