deduction
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Alongside last season's punishment, Southampton will start the new Championship campaign with a four-point deduction.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
This would be achieved via tweaks to the standard deduction and the characteristically German formula used to calculate with great complexity the marginal rate for incomes below around €70,000.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
First, mortgage interest is not eligible to be used as a deduction unless it is “acquisition debt.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
Vermeer eschewed easy narrative deduction, Mr. Graham-Dixon writes, by substituting the map with a blank wall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
There were a lot of numbers and words like deduction and revenue and net.
From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling
However, a landlord could make deductions from the tenancy deposit at the end of the tenancy for proven pet-related damage.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Ideally, the U.S. would have “universal access” to retirement savings accounts, giving all workers the option of contributing automatically to a savings plan via payroll deductions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
They are entirely determined by your “provisional income,” a calculation used by the Internal Revenue Service before deductions are applied.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 2026
Shareholder pressure on studios, tax credits in other states, and California’s policies on expense deductions all play clear roles.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2026
She clipped the receipt for the box of chalk to her ledger book so that she could list it in the column of itemized deductions that always accompanied her income tax returns.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Vocabulary lists containing deduction
Argumentative Writing
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Argumentative Writing, List 2
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