Example Sentences

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Trade has been a drag on GDP growth for a year, while inventories have subtracted from output for two straight quarters.

From Reuters • Oct. 27, 2021

Assigning DeAngelo to the Hartford Wolf Pack would have subtracted $1.075 million from his $4.8 million salary-cap hit.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2021

If the triangle had been in a different position, we may have subtracted x1 − x2 or y1 − y2.

From Textbooks • May 6, 2020

Thus, in northern India, the northern China plain, the Caspian and Aral Seas, among other regions, human withdrawals for agriculture have subtracted enormous amounts of water mass from the Earth.

From Seattle Times • May 16, 2018

This predilection for learning, and the time perforce given to its acquisition, must necessarily have subtracted from those hours which might otherwise have been bestowed on the lighter labours and beguiling occupations of the needle.

From The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries by Menzies, Sutherland, fl. 1840-1883