- present participle of negate.
negating
Example Sentences
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It was Silva here who amended City's press, negating Liverpool's change.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026
Car buyers used to be able to travel to a factory and pick up a vehicle directly from a manufacturer, negating the shipping costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026
They seemed left for dead after Clayton Kershaw gave up four runs in the bottom of the first, immediately negating Freeman’s RBI line-drive single in the first.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2025
Boy Kavalier thinks he owns him, negating all necessity for his subject’s approval.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2025
I apologize for the double negative, but it’s a real double negative of a situation, a bind from which negating the negation is truly the only escape.
From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
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