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, 28 Jan. 2026
From there, GOBankingRates subtracted average Social Security payments and estimated the savings needed to cover the remaining expenses using an annual 4% withdrawal rate.
—Mike Winters, CNBC, 18 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
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
Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 28 Jan. 2026
From there, GOBankingRates subtracted average Social Security payments and estimated the savings needed to cover the remaining expenses using an annual 4% withdrawal rate.
—Mike Winters, CNBC, 18 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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for subtracted
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The Eaton Fire Survivors Network is urging Southern California Edison to provide up to $200,000 per household in temporary housing advances, to be deducted from final settlements.—
James Ward,
USA Today,
27 Jan. 2026
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Prosecutors said Dawson deducted money for the victims’ retirement savings from their paychecks and used those deductions for his own benefit.—
Jason Green,
Mercury News,
22 Jan. 2026
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Disney reduced its outlay by selling regional sports networks and other assets, but the deal left the company with significant debt just before COVID-19 hit.—
Meg James,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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By designing the computing architecture differently, the company reduced that down to 17 in its first-generation R1 vehicles and then to seven in the second generation.—
Robert Ferris,
CNBC,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Subtracted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subtracted. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.
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