negation
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In addition, large language models in AI tools have difficulty interpreting passages containing negation.
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
“It wasn’t a negation of color. It was an acceptance. Because black encompasses all colors.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2024
But the statement can be translated quickly if you know that “∧” stands for “and at the same time” and that “¬” is a negation.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 12, 2023
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
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 difficulty posed by negations has long been noted in style manuals.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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