subtract

On the whiteboard are the words: subtract, difference, count back, regroup.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

The Power Four — the Big Ten, SEC, Big 12 and ACC — plus the Big East comprise 79 schools and continue to add rather than subtract.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026

You could, however, add to or subtract from this list to build your own.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026

To calculate it yourself, start with a financial report line item called cash from operations, and then fully subtract capex.

From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026

I knew my numbers in Quichua from playing market so much; I could even add and subtract and make change.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

To settle the transfer, the U.S. bank subtracts the funds from Bank A's balance and adds them to Bank B's.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

The deficit number Newsom presented Friday subtracts the $17.3 billion in cuts agreed to earlier from the $37.9-billion deficit estimate from January.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2024

Singleton said that if legislation subtracts from how he sees freedom and liberty, “then I’m there to stand in opposition to those things and push back.”

From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2024

“Italy says that immigration has to be managed at a European level, and now subtracts a part of this problem from the European debate,” he said.

From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2024

Still, if one subtracts all the superstitious elements from the subject, there’s something appealing about the small residue that remains.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

Abbott secretly subtracted a hidden value from measurements involving some of the experimental masses.

From Science Daily ● May 18, 2026

“What is additive to the U.S.’s GDP, of course, may be subtracted from oil importers’ real GDP, all else equal.”

From Barron's ● May 4, 2026

For instance, when you tap or swipe your card at a restaurant, the entire bottom line—including state and local taxes and gratuity—is subtracted from your card’s credit limit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

Papic, chief geopolitical and macro strategist at BCA Research, calculates that from Iran’s pain threshold must be subtracted the scale and intensity of punitive U.S. bombing raids, combined with the rest of the world’s response.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026

There were long lines of figures, added, divided, and subtracted, and little drawings.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

Then it's the net goal score - taking the goals in favour, and subtracting the goals against.

From BBC ● May 26, 2026

The NAV represents the fair value of the underlying assets, calculated by subtracting the fund’s liabilities from its total assets and dividing the remainder by the number of outstanding shares.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 25, 2026

Excluding the AI categories, fixed investment was down 10%, subtracting a percentage point from GDP growth, and adding to the negative effect of the shutdown.

From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026

At the same time, more types of companies are adding jobs rather than subtracting them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2025

You can’t remove a three-acre swath from a two-acre field, but nothing prevents you from subtracting three from two.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife