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negative

[neg-uh-tiv] / ˈnɛg ə tɪv /


NOUN
contradiction
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Though I don’t put much stock in polls, she’s ahead on points by virtue of Bass’ high negative rating alone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

“There’s a lot of complacency around AI,” Catrambone said, while adding he’s not negative on the theme.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

Many such funds with high distribution yields in the short run end up producing low or negative total returns in the long run.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

A double negative deployed this time, about alleged attempts at interference.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

This tiny galaxy forms its own balance between the positive charge of the protons in its nucleus and the negative charge of the electrons that surround them.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

It’s not necessarily only negatives driving yields higher.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026

It includes an architectural model and original blueprints of the Integratron, as well as nearly 630 photographs, negatives and slides, more than 250 audio recordings, 8-millimeter film footage, books, publications and other records and ephemera.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

And there are negatives that investors may be overlooking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

The recruiter walked him through the process and the "positives and the negatives," Price says, and "it was good to see what kind of opportunities are out there".

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

These two negatives do not equal a positive.

From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy

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

This position is in no wise negatived by the fact of the Buddhist priesthood of India, or of a class of philosophical atheists in any other country.

From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse H. Jones

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

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

We satisfy ourselves with negativing in the Deity everything that constitutes existence, so far as we are capable of conceiving of existence.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

It is the Nabob himself, negativing all these pretences.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

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 Alexander Maclaren

Sir Hugh Allan published a sworn affidavit, negativing McMullen's charges, and McMullen himself had subsequently admitted that his charges had been hasty and inaccurate.

From The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 by John Charles Dent

He said he could not tolerate the ordinary gravestone, which always looked, to him, as if the wind might blow it over, thus negativing the idea of solidity.

From The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett




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