as in deducted
to take away (an amount or number) from a total
if you subtract 10 from 23, you get 13 you can subtract the time you spent daydreaming from your total homework time
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Recent Examples of subtracted
Once the assessed value is established, any qualifying exemptions get subtracted.
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Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2026
The down payment is subtracted from the $6,000 of negative equity.
—Susan Tompor, USA Today, 8 Jan. 2026
The Patriots went just 17 yards after the turnover, with 15 yards subtracted by penalties.
—Doug Kyed, Hartford Courant, 5 Jan. 2026
If choosing statement credits or gift cards, those can be redeemed via Ramp’s website, and the Ramp Plus payments can be opted into, and will be automatically subtracted from your rewards balance.
—Ryley Amond, CNBC, 29 Dec. 2025
The ruling also allowed for additional special education funds to be subtracted from the annual operating budget when calculating funding for charter schools.
—Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2025
Eventually the machines that prevented me from moving were subtracted.
—David Freyne, Time, 7 Dec. 2025
How many racist comments must be subtracted from a Nature paper before the total is negative?
—Kathryn Paige Harden, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2025
But in an Akan language, the notion that an object could exist as a bare substrate, stripped of properties—say, the idea of a stone, with its weight, texture, and color subtracted—is basically unintelligible; the metaphysical split between a thing and its properties isn’t naturally expressible.
—Lula Konner, The New York Review of Books, 4 Oct. 2025
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An Associated Press investigation in 2010 found that some students were being forced to dance at strip clubs, while others were being paid less than $1 an hour after labor brokers deducted fees.—
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Previously, the amount that could be deducted was capped at $10,000.—
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While many areas are seeing visibility reduced to between one and three miles, patchy dense fog is reducing visibilities to as low as one quarter mile in spots.—
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Unable to turn back against the strong currents of the Napo, the party, now reduced to just 50, carried on downriver toward the Amazon.—
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“Subtracted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subtracted. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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