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How to use the word subtracting in a Sentence?

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I expect Federal Reserve to signal another half-percentage-point hike is likely at their next decision in June, and that additional hikes — probably no specifics on the number or magnitude — are coming in the second half of the year, federal Reserve wants short-term interest rates to get back to a level that is at least neutral -- meaning neither adding or subtracting to growth -- as fast as possible without causing turmoil in financial markets.

– Bill Adams

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Putin might have assumed he would be believed when he claimed his troops were simply conducting exercises and had begun to head home. Biden and his aides responded with more transparency, reporting that Putin was actually adding to his potential invasion force, not subtracting from it, contrast all of this with what possibly, or probably, would have happened had Trump still been in office.

– Eugene Robinson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As a party, we need to be honest about where we are. And we are completely out of power at the federal government. We don't have White House, we don't have the White House, and we don't have the Senate. Sometimes when I hear us talk about the state of our party, we talk about how we somehow won an election. We lost all of them when you look at the federal government, my concern is we are trying to excommunicate our own voters. And when you are fully out of power, you need to be adding voters, not subtracting voters.

– Anthony Gonzales

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Flag on the play ? - Email us at HALFTIMEREPORT@FOXNEWS.COMwith your tips, comments or questions. SCOREBOARD Trump net job-approval rating : -18.4 points Change from one week ago : down 0.8 points [ President Trump’s score is determined by subtracting President Trump average job disapproval rating inthe five most recent, methodologically sound public polls from President Trump average approval rating, calculated in the same fashion. ] ‘ WE HAVE THE VOTES ’ WaPo :.

– Senate Republicans

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The idea is that you never finish the list, and the list is pliable, and you are constantly adding and subtracting.

– Phil Keoghan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

You got to get to 50 - or pretty close to it - to win. And to get to 50 you have to add, not subtract, and so you can't start subtracting in a primary, and then you always have to keep your eye on the fact that while you're doing that you can't be subtracting for the general.

– Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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