affirmative
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The filing alleges that in 2018 "Amazon began secretly manipulating its auction results to increase its ad prices" and "gave its customers no notice of this change and took affirmative steps to conceal it."
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
There have been hunger strikes demanding farmers' rights, affirmative action, environmental protections, anti-corruption laws and the repeal of controversial security legislation.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
India’s long-running debate about affirmative action has a new point of comparison: China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
More fundamentally, nearly every smartphone function requires some affirmative permission somewhere along the way.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026
The assumption was that the project would concentrate its efforts on defending affirmative action.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
Most soiree veterans are accustomed to getting an influx of “yes” confirmations not long after the invites go out and another wave of affirmatives days before the party starts.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2023
For the kids in the working-class families, the ratio was twelve affirmatives to seven prohibitions, and in the welfare families it was five affirmatives to eleven prohibitions.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 5, 2015
For the past year the British working classes have grown increasingly aware that they were getting two negatives where they wanted two affirmatives.
From Time Magazine Archive
None the less the press busied itself with the affirmatives of all these denials for many days.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Retrieval Squad roared military-type affirmatives, coaxing as many metallic noises from their weapons as possible.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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