subtract

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

But none of this should subtract from the bigger takeaway.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 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

There’s no one-size-fits-all approach, but the rule of 120 stipulates that you can subtract your age from 120 to give you an approximate weighting in equities that would match your age.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 20, 2026

“Well, indirectly. You may subtract it from my miserable wage.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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 Accountant 2” subtracts everything that worked about the 2016 original, a marvelous romp that starred Ben Affleck as Christian Wolff, a neurodivergent numbers geek who freelances as an auditor and assassin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2025

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

The floating ice climbs to an annual peak of more than 7 million square miles in September — but then subtracts an area nearly the size of Russia by the following February.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2023

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

Net exports subtracted a point from GDP, which is a statistical wash since imports flow into consumer spending and investment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Piper Sandler’s analysts estimated that rising earnings contributed about 18.5 percentage points to that return, while a shrinking price-to-earnings multiple subtracted nearly 8 percentage points.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● May 18, 2026

Although the government shutdown subtracted about a percentage point of economic growth, the softer spending also contributed to the dismal 0.7% growth rate in inflation-adjusted gross domestic product.

From Barron's ● Apr. 8, 2026

She added and subtracted endlessly, determining what she would need and not need, cooking rice and beans each week, and heating up small portions in the microwave for lunch and dinner.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Gross profit is revenue without subtracting the cost of production expenses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

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

From BBC ● May 26, 2026

That is similar to a 206,000-barrel daily increase announced in March and April, subtracting the portion allotted to the UAE.

From Barron's ● May 3, 2026

This is a non-GAAP metric that adds depreciation and amortization back to earnings, while subtracting gains from the sale of property.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 5, 2026

First Momma started writing in a notebook and adding things up and subtracting things, then Dad and Joey and Rufus and me started driving all over Flint buying things for the Brown Bomber.

From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis