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negation

[ni-gey-shuhn] / nɪˈgeɪ ʃən /


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Singh formally apologised to the nation in 2005 in parliament, saying the violence were "the negation of the concept of nationhood enshrined in our constitution".

From BBC Dec. 27, 2024

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

From Salon Apr. 20, 2024

“You’re not going to have enough current to light up a child’s lightbulb project at a science fair,” he informed Marlon, who did not take such negation well.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 20, 2024

A second method to steer humanity away from fossil fuel burning centers on a concept known as "undesign," the intentional negation of technology and consideration of alternatives that do not rely on labor-saving human inventions.

From Science Daily Feb. 15, 2024

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

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 Nov. 27, 2022

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

It decided to lower the rate by 8.2% after nine months of negations.

From Reuters Aug. 12, 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




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