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subtraction

noun as in deduction

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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.

Sometimes it’s addition by subtraction, and Josh Allen and the Bills are doing fine without Stefon Diggs.

The former is addition by subtraction; the latter, addition by constancy.

That’s where another of the firm’s tenets — “addition by subtraction” — comes into play.

A demolition saw with a diamond-bladed circular wheel allows the designers to saw-cut “very clear, deliberate and geometric patterns in the existing paving,” Hesselein said, performing “surgical subtraction” to create beds with clean edges and “doing it in a very precise way that elevates that remaining concrete.”

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

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