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Subtract 12 times the July gas bill to remove the amount spent on water heating.
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The trend in government finances can stimulate or subtract from economic growth.
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Anything that separates the customer from the merchandise can subtract business.
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Lenhoff is unable to subtract 2 from 5, and her IQ has consistently measured 55.
From the kentucky.com
Subtract $500 for the IRS's floor on losses, and that amount shrinks to $29,500.
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In fact, you can add or subtract trim to really change the style of the cabinets.
From the dailyherald.com
They do not include pension contributions and subtract them when they come out.
From the curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com
Subtract another $2.5 billion, courtesy of Question 3, and you have a disaster.
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If you subtract Mr Draper's hubris, what remains of the Observer's allegations?
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- Make a subtraction; "subtract this amount from my paycheck"
- Take off or away; "this prefix was subtracted when the word was borrowed from French"
- (subtraction) an arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated; "the subtraction of three from four leaves one"; "four minus three equals one"
- Subtraction is one of the four basic arithmetic operations; it is the inverse of addition, meaning that if we start with any number and add any number and then subtract the same number we added, we return to the number we started with. Subtraction is denoted by a minus sign in infix notation.
- To remove or reduce; especially to reduce a quantity or number
- In the subtraction expression, a - b = c, a is the minuend, b is the subtrahend, and c is the difference.
- (Subtraction) 6 minutes Explains how whole numbers, fractions, and decimal numbers are subtracted. Describes what borrowing is and when it is necessary. Shows how fractions and decimal numbers are subtracted. Demonstrates how to check the results of a subtraction problem. ...
- (Subtraction) An arithmetic process where you take one value away from another. The answer in a subtraction problem is called the "difference.". In the real world, you usually take smaller numbers away from larger numbers. ...
- (Subtraction) The principle whereby an intruder may attack a table of population counts by removing known individuals from the table. If this leads to the presence of certain zeroes in the table then that table is vulnerable to attribute disclosure.
