negate
Example Sentences
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Yet they have to correct for a yearslong decline in employer response rates to BLS surveys—which does not negate the data overall, but certainly makes preliminary calculations a bit more unsteady and speculative.
From Slate • Apr. 3, 2026
Airlines covered by a United Nations carbon-offsetting program for aviation have less than two years to negate their emissions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
"I wonder if there's something wired in us where we go, ‘let's find the problem, let's find a threat and then we'll negate the threat’."
From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026
But that does not negate the point that caregivers are paid too little for the work that they do.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 11, 2025
When an author has to negate something that a reader doesn’t already believe, she has to set it up as a plausible belief on his mental stage before she knocks it down.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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