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minus

[mahy-nuhs] / ˈmaɪ nəs /
ADJECTIVE
diminished
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


ADJECTIVE
on the negative side
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


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Jacob Tremblay embodies a young Kaczynski almost exactly as I have imagined him, minus the smiling and the forging of his mother’s signature.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

Liquefaction plants cool natural gas down to around minus 162 degrees Celsius, which shrinks its volume by around 600 times and turns it into a liquid.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

My wife has said roughly the same thing to me, minus the professional credentials.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

"I think the punishment has been very hard on the club for the last season. And to go into a new season on minus four. And the rest is not for me to decide."

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

“Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction. Yep.”

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

Ponderously disjointed, unnecessarily long, and emotionally distant are its minuses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

The net effect of these pluses and minuses is unknown.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

That’s a slight pullback from March, and the underlying data had both pluses and minuses.

From Barron's ● May 5, 2026

So, as an introvert, what are the pluses and minuses there?

From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2025

Who even cared about the minuses on his old conduct grades by now?

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye




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