deduction

Example Sentences

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In last year’s tax law, Congress raised the cap for that deduction to $40,000 from $10,000.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

You want to itemize this year when you took the standard deduction last year?

From MarketWatch • Mar. 23, 2026

That’s because, in addition to being voluntary, as Kleinbard noted, it’s uncapped — unlike, say the deduction of mortgage interest.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

But City fans will surely be encouraged that the Premier League board did not appear to even consider a points deduction in the case of Chelsea, despite the "deception and concealment".

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

His signature was not the smoking six-shooter; instead, like Sherlock Holmes, he relied upon the startling powers of reason and deduction, the ability to observe what the Watsons of the world merely saw.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann