subtraction
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Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Mani Haghighi’s noir thriller, Subtraction, is set to screen Saturday at the prestigious London Film Festival.
From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2022
Subtraction, division and exponentiation are nonassociative operations: Who’s clumped with whom matters.
From New York Times • May 2, 2016
Manziel and Dwayne Bowe are no longer Browns and can definitely be placed in the Addition By Subtraction category.
From The Guardian • Apr. 20, 2016
Subtraction of vectors is defined in terms of adding the negative of the vector.
From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016
Mr. Fabian writes on the board: Multiplication and Division are always evaluated before Addition and Subtraction.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
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