subtractions
- plural of subtraction.
Example Sentences
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But you know, additions are just as important as subtractions.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026
Norm Eisen, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a legal analyst at CNN, said “the subtractions stand out more than the additions” in Smith’s latest filing.
From Salon • Aug. 28, 2024
So given those additions and subtractions, what will Becki Ball look like?
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2024
Solving arithmetic problems, even simple subtractions, involves mental representations whose influence remains to be clarified.
From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2024
For just as by the external addition of unities we can step forward from one number to the next, so we can also step back on the same path by repeated subtractions of unities.
From Man or Matter by Lehrs, Ernst
