Need inputs related to SQL statements involving date

Hello all,

Could someone of you provide me a sample SQL statement involving 
appropriate date-time functions 
that would subtract some "x" number of days from the current date and 
yield a new date?

The above requirement has to be acheived using SQL statement only in the 
case we have.

Thanks in advance for all the inputs.

Thanks.
Muthu

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