negation

In an array of communications, ranging from advertising to legal filings, negation is often used intentionally to mask a clear understanding of a phrase.

From Science Daily ● May 30, 2024

The negation of LeBron James is not related to sports, rather it is a cultural stain.

From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2024

Had Logan meant to underline Kendall’s name for emphasis or cross it out in an act of negation?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2023

Or there is a darker, easier alternative—simply reject the problem, and retreat into naked negation by ignoring evidence and seeking to stymy those pointing out the urgency of the issue.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 1, 2023

Sometimes it is the only resting place, particularly when the modifier is a negation or quantifier such as not of more than.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

In a prepared statement, the company confirmed negations will resume next week and said it was pleased to go back and “resolve the few remaining open issues.”

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2023

"Naturally, when you are in contract negations, there is always going to be speculation and unless you hear it from me, that's what it is," Hamilton said.

From BBC ● May 25, 2023

As in his earlier work, Saunders’ relentlessly humane vision of life, always in comic search of our deepest negations of each other, is remarkably vivid.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2022

He replaced Mohammed Abdel-Aty who oversaw years of technical negations with Ethiopia over its controversial dam on the Nile River’s main tributary.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 13, 2022

The answer is that negation is easy to understand when the proposition being negated is plausible or tempting.23 Compare the negations in these two columns: A whale is not a fish.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker