subtraction
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Though Sharpe wrote his article before the advent of AI, he stressed that his conclusion depends “only on the laws of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Nothing else is required.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
The new revision was "primarily reflecting a downward revision to imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, that was partly offset by a downward revision to consumer spending," the department said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
The antidote psychologists prescribe is mental subtraction: deliberately imagining life without what you take for granted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
But here’s the catch: Adaptations are primarily about subtraction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 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
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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
So given those additions and subtractions, what will Becki Ball look like?
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
Solving arithmetic problems, even simple subtractions, involves mental representations whose influence remains to be clarified.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 7, 2024
Hence, before making the additions or subtractions from the amount of oxygen admitted, the variations in the amount of oxygen residual in the system should be converted from liters to grams.
From Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man by Francis Gano Benedict
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