negating

Example Sentences

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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

This approach should not be confused with toxic positivity, which is when people only look for the positive while negating any negative emotions.

From Salon • Sep. 25, 2025

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

Rather than directly address vehicle size, they tout emergent technologies, like pedestrian automatic emergency braking, that can theoretically avoid crashes entirely, negating the risk that hulking vehicles present in a collision.

From Slate • Oct. 2, 2024

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