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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
subtract .
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Examples
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Apple doesn't even offer hard drives on its new MacBook Air but it does offer both types of storage on its MacBook Pro and, as you'd expect, the SSD option substantially adds to the price as it substantially subtracts from the storage.
Larry Magid: So-Called "Future of the MacBook" Is Not New Larry Magid 2010
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I see no flaws in this, except that it completely subtracts from the point of a desktop.
The Full-Screen Firefox Cloud Desktop | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Apple doesn't even offer hard drives on its new MacBook Air but it does offer both types of storage on its MacBook Pro and, as you'd expect, the SSD option substantially adds to the price as it substantially subtracts from the storage.
Larry Magid: So-called "Future of the MacBook" is Not New Larry Magid 2010
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Apple doesn't even offer hard drives on its new MacBook Air but it does offer both types of storage on its MacBook Pro and, as you'd expect, the SSD option substantially adds to the price as it substantially subtracts from the storage.
Larry Magid: So-Called "Future of the MacBook" Is Not New Larry Magid 2010
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Apple doesn't even offer hard drives on its new MacBook Air but it does offer both types of storage on its MacBook Pro and, as you'd expect, the SSD option substantially adds to the price as it substantially subtracts from the storage.
Larry Magid: So-Called "Future of the MacBook" Is Not New Larry Magid 2010
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However, rotating back and forth subtracts from the overall impact of each in spite two well written multilayered story lines that come across as rotating novellas.
Chain of Evidence-Gary Disher « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2008
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The fact that some who die may be “innocent Iraqis” neither adds to or subtracts from the analysis of whether the war is justified.
Think Progress » McClellan: They’ve Already Had Phase Two 2005
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The arrangement seems to be such that the defective switch "subtracts" the color involved.
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The arrangement seems to be such that the defective switch "subtracts" the color involved.
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This subtracts nothing from the legitimacy of his office.
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