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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.

But in light of the Supreme Court’s decision, those subtractions make the case that much stronger.

From Salon

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.

“But in reality, we are not even teaching addition and subtraction, and sex education is not a priority.”

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

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