negation

Example Sentences

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Marilyn Hacker’s sonnet, an excerpt from a sequence, plays with negation: She records all the things she didn’t do in rhyme that surges with life, even when it concludes with regret.

From Washington Post

While Tamames has said that he doesn’t agree with many of Vox’s positions, which include its negation of climate change, unfounded charges that migrants are linked to more violent crimes, and its attacks on feminism.

From Seattle Times

“And for reflection and understanding oneself. To cover it is to suggest a sort of negation.”

From Los Angeles Times

Mr Harper said there had been "quite a lot of progress" in negations between the trade unions and train operating companies and Network Rail.

From BBC

Every time we begin, we face the negation of language, a blank page that somehow mirrors the void inside us.

From Los Angeles Times