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The $10 billion of goodwill represented the difference between the purchase price and Spirit’s net identifiable assets, which in this case were negative.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Women with higher lifetime alcohol consumption experienced stronger negative effects associated with coffee, while the apparent benefits of tea were more pronounced among women with obesity.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026

They can suffer from lower perceived competence, burn out, and ultimately quit or flee to other sports to escape the older sibling’s shadow, which isn’t necessarily a negative course correction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

"Shein's near future is going to be marked by negative growth," e-commerce analyst Juozas Kaziukenas told AFP.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

Nowadays we recognize that 2 – 3 = –1: negative one.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

What are the benefits and negatives of each?

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026

The main negatives are its manganese business, which posts a 3% miss on Ebitda, and Brazil Alumina, where Ebitda falls 33% short, the bank says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

In other words, for Spurs the pluses of building a new expensive stadium far outweigh the negatives, at least from a financial perspective.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

That question is at the center of a new paper published in Nature Astronomy, where researchers examine the often-overlooked problem of "false negatives" in the search for extraterrestrial life.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 30, 2026

Suddenly I knew I could not go back up to that room with its mottled mirror, its dead lightbulb and its blank negatives.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

Referring to Erskine May, Parliament's ancient and respected rule book, he said MPs should never be asked to vote again on the same proposition if they had already "negatived" it during the current Parliamentary session.

From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2019

With gentle but resolute firmness, His Majesty negatived this proposal, hailed a passing motorist who, overwhelmed, obeyed with alacrity a royal command that he convey Miss Betts to her residence in Uxbridge.

From Time Magazine Archive

Miss Bingley moved with alacrity to the pianoforte, and after a polite request that Elizabeth would lead the way, which the other as politely and more earnestly negatived, she seated herself.

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

This minister suffered his motion to be negatived by 248 against 194!

From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Lady Anne Hamilton

Webster alleged that this change made the copyright invalid, which contention was negatived by the U. S.

From Copyright: Its History and Its Law by Richard Rogers Bowker

The importance of the discovery is in negativing the theory that the crime was committed for the sake of robbery.

From The Queen Against Owen by Allen Upward

‘An early answer will oblige, as, in case of your negativing the proposal, inquiry must be made of other publishers.—I am, gentlemen, yours truly, ‘C. Brontë.’

From Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Clement King Shorter

A large share of the work done was directed to assuring or negativing previous results.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke

But Mr. Falkirk had reasons of his own for negativing that plan, and negatived it accordingly.

From Wych Hazel by Susan Warner

It is not probable, however, that the Government would refuse to build any line that would clearly subserve public, convenience, the conduct of the postal service negativing such a supposition....

From The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses by William Larrabee