negative
Example Sentences
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All three major indexes spent the entire trading day in negative territory.
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
The short-term credit impact on banks of changes to taxation is likely to be negative, they add.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
"Musk is a singular individual," Lund said, "but negative things never seem to stick to either of them."
From BBC • May 18, 2026
And the government was so sure it was going to get a negative ruling that the it actually asked to withdraw the investigation before the ruling came down.
From Slate • May 18, 2026
Just as Indian mathematicians accepted zero while Europeans rejected it for centuries, the East embraced negative numbers while the West tried to ignore them.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Vocabulary lists containing negative
Tier 2 Words for the SBAC ELA Items
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The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 3
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