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The consumer bureau said it was imposing a $1 billion penalty but was deducting from that the amount that Wells Fargo was paying to the currency comptroller’s office.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2018

One possibility, he said, was deducting debts owed by the Palestinian Authority to Israeli utility companies from the tax revenues that Israel collects on behalf of the authority.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2012

The revenuers claim that she was deducting up to $30,000 a year for contributing her own nonobjective paintings to art museums.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nicholl understood that the president was deducting from the terrestrial diameter the projectile's distance from the earth.

From From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon by Verne, Jules