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Air quality regulators said that during the sanitation process this week, Lineage will need to maintain negative air pressure and keep air pollution equipment running to help mitigate fumes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

Luria said that Microsoft has now countered the negative narratives that were plaguing its stock earlier this year.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026

In a poll conducted this May by the Pew Research Center, 62 percent of respondents said they held a negative view of Israeli authorities, compared to 51 percent in April 2019.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

More than half of Gen Z use generative AI at least weekly, but their negative emotions toward it have intensified, according to an April poll from Gallup.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

“Whatever,” Juanita retorted, letting Velia’s negative comments slide right off her back like cold butter off a warm tortilla.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

What are the benefits and negatives of each?

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026

The main negatives are its manganese business, which posts a 3% miss on Ebitda, and Brazil Alumina, where Ebitda falls 33% short, the bank says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

That question is at the center of a new paper published in Nature Astronomy, where researchers examine the often-overlooked problem of "false negatives" in the search for extraterrestrial life.

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

If you get eleven negatives and one positive, the requirement resets back to square one.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

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

He was supported by Mr. Roebuck, but the motion was negatived, 190 to 89.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various

In consequence of these shuffling contrivances against justice, this most serious inquiry was negatived, while every principle of right was set at open defiance, and the most honourable of the community privately insulted.

From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Lady Anne Hamilton

Now if we are convinced that evil in ourselves has no power unless we give it power, that is the first step toward making our efforts positive and so negativing the evil.

From Nerves and Common Sense by Annie Payson Call

They have determined that the King shall have a suspensive and iterative veto: that is, that after negativing a law, it cannot be presented again till after a new election.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph

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

From Evolution and Ethics by Thomas Henry Huxley

They had Grove's Dictionary as a starter, and by carefully negativing every date and fact printed in it, they were sure to hit the truth somewhere.

From Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques by James Huneker

The old question, “Who shall stand in the Holy Place?” is not answered in the gospel by reducing the conditions, or negativing the old reply.

From The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon by Alexander Maclaren