Example Sentences

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Overall, the bill will subtract at least 24 tons of carbon emissions for each ton of emissions that the oil and gas provision adds, according to Energy Innovation, a think tank.

From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2022

A full month’s shutdown of the city will subtract 2% from China’s annual economic growth, according to an analysis from ING bank earlier this month.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2022

Since meters is the larger unit, we will subtract the lengths in meters.

From Textbooks • Apr. 22, 2020

The executive summary contains these warnings: “the trade measures implemented since April will weigh on activity in 2019 and beyond; US fiscal policy will subtract momentum starting in 2020.”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 12, 2018

There are two things to be done—the imparting of good which will increase the sum of the world's happiness, and the destruction of evil, which will subtract some of the world's sorrows.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture by Maclaren, Alexander