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Although Stokes said he had developed "negative feelings" around playing for England, he said his time back in county cricket rekindled his love for the game.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

Ablin points out that once-parsimonious teams that boosted spending the most have seen negative returns on the field.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

A weaker yen has many negative implications for Japan’s economy, as a weaker currency can lead to inflationary pressure.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

It is, however, not all negative as the report points to the rise of the "silver economy" -- a growing market for goods and services for older citizens.

From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026

Over and over to drown out the negative voice.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

Researchers note that these kinds of false negatives are particularly challenging because scientists often recognize them only after the fact.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 30, 2026

After consulting with experts and good governance groups, the commission agreed the benefits of bifurcation outweighed the negatives, and it passed unanimously by the commission.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026

She felt the positives were outweighed by the negatives.

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

At times, he both flew the plane and took the pictures, only needing a helper to swap out the glass plate negatives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

A file box of negatives, and her cameras.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

Referring to Erskine May, Parliament's ancient and respected rule book, he said MPs should never be asked to vote again on the same proposition if they had already "negatived" it during the current Parliamentary session.

From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2019

With gentle but resolute firmness, His Majesty negatived this proposal, hailed a passing motorist who, overwhelmed, obeyed with alacrity a royal command that he convey Miss Betts to her residence in Uxbridge.

From Time Magazine Archive

Miss Bingley moved with alacrity to the pianoforte, and after a polite request that Elizabeth would lead the way, which the other as politely and more earnestly negatived, she seated herself.

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

All of them negatived: substantive motion proposed: lost as well.

From Aspects of Modern Oxford by Godley, A. D. (Alfred Denis)

Managers are to be consulted; players to be humoured; the best pieces that were ever written negatived, and returned on the author’s hands.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas

Surely, too, the accidental element may play its part in Nature without negativing design in the theists view.

From Evolution and Ethics by Huxley, Thomas Henry

So far, therefore, from negativing and excluding any obscure and perhaps supernormal agency, the suggestion theory leaves the way for any such agency broadly open.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

The history of all religions clearly attests that there are two orders of principles--the natural and the positive, and, in some measure, two authorities of religious life which are intimately related without negativing each other.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)

How long am I to have the office of merely negativing assertions which are but supported by former assertions, in which John is ever helping Tom, and the elephant stands upon the tortoise?

From Apologia pro Vita Sua by Newman, John Henry

The terms of the description should be noted, as completely negativing the notion that the fact in question was anything like compulsory abolition of the right of individual ownership.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts by Maclaren, Alexander