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In the following image, each plus sign opens to reveal a green aspect of the campus.
—Renae Gregoire, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
The commitment breathed new life into an idea first proposed over a decade ago and dismissed by some as an urban fantasy: a self-filtering swimming pool shaped like a plus sign in the murky currents of the East River.
—Jake Offenhartz, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2024
The spread is typically shown with a minus sign in front of the favorite and a plus sign in front of the underdog.
—Giovanni Malloy, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
Instead, Adam is related to singer Michael Bolton, which is confirmed by his full wine clue: a long pencil (not a short one), hair, the number 90 in a star, a person with a question mark on their head, a person holding a microphone, a heart, a tennis ball, a plus sign, and an advertising sign.
—Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 15 Aug. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1820, in the meaning defined above
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“Plus sign.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plus%20sign. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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plus sign
noun
: a sign + used especially in mathematics to indicate addition (as in 8 + 6 = 14) or a positive quantity (as in +10°)
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