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Built-in Mathematica Symbol

Minus

-x
is the arithmetic negation of x.

Minus automatically distributes over groupings:

Minus threads element-wise over lists:

Explicit FullForm:

Out[2]//FullForm=

Pattern match both x and -x:

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