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subtraction

noun as in deduction

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Great songwriting is about compression, and the element of subtraction distills what Bono clearly considers to be the most important elements of his life into 90 minutes.

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I’m in a season of life where I no longer make health resolutions focused on subtraction.

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Powell said his opportunity this season was “addition by subtraction.”

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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.

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

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