Example Sentences
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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
Oil market analysts had widely expected the increase of 188,000 barrels, similar to the 206,000-barrel daily increases OPEC+ announced in both March and April when the portion allotted to the UAE was subtracted.
From Barron's ● May 3, 2026
But since some domestic spending is on imported products, rather than things made in the U.S., imports are subtracted from total spending to arrive at GDP estimates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
To get this variable, Colin took the two people’s average age and subtracted five.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
