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Tea Party politicians had campaigned on a platform of policy negation and government shutdown, and they achieved their aims.

From Time

If you have $300,000 to $400,000 in liability and get $100,000 in negation value, you’re losing money on the deal.

From Digiday

This is just such a negation of the progress that we’ve made.

The first hurdle to restarting stimulus negations was cleared Tuesday when Democratic and Republican leaders came to terms on a stop-gap funding bill that would avert a government shutdown at the end of September.

From Fortune

Negation: Were there any related denying stories competing for attention?

It ended as a morality play about the failure to protect civil liberties…[and] the complete negation of the evidence of abuse.

“Richard Phillips: Negation of the Universe” will be on display at Dallas Contemporary through August 10, 2014.

In order to build a Jewish nation and society, Zionists classically engaged in “negation of the Diaspora,” or shlilat hagolah.

And that treatise of Van de Water, the Belgian, on the sublimation of the sub-conscious by the negation of the self-censor.

"Oh, don't undertake to deny your eccentric taste," she returns, checking a negation on Adolphe's lips.

That old Spanish art of religion and dogma was changed under his hands to an art of negation and sarcasm.

He bellowed an angry command, but the Bugi closed his eyes and lowered his head resignedly, nodding in negation.

She sat absolutely still and made no sign except that of her obstinate face of negation.

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On this page you'll find 53 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to negation, such as: antithesis, renunciation, repudiation, antonym, blank, and cancellation.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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