subtract
Example Sentences
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Excluding AI, fixed investment declined 10% in the fourth quarter, subtracting one percentage point from overall GDP growth.
From Barron's
The BEA estimated that the reduction in government services subtracted about 1 percentage point from real GDP growth in the fourth quarter.
From Barron's
It also incorporates more of people’s financial circumstances than common rules of thumb for equity allocation, such as the classic 60/40 division of stocks and bonds or subtracting your age from 100.
In the second round, you can add or subtract a multiple, too, like “What is ten times ten, minus two times ten?”
From Literature
He really wanted to ask her what had happened, but even with all the adding and subtracting he knew that they weren’t friends.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
