negative
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And as Alphabet spends billions on AI, it just reported its first quarter ever with negative free cash flow.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 26, 2026
The way words are perceived can change too, with connotations morphing from negative to positive.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026
Analysts expect Meta and Amazon to also post negative free cash flow, while Microsoft is the only major AI spender with positive cash flow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
“Even when food is available for testing, contamination can be uneven, so a negative test does not necessarily rule a product out,” Rimoin said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
The man at S&P couldn’t say: Their model for home prices had no ability to accept a negative number.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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
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
Dallin’s vast collection of negatives, housed at the Hagley Museum, remains an invaluable resource for golf course architects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
The convoluted syntax, multiple negatives, indefinite antecedents, and masterful circumlocutions of this statement defy comprehension.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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
The proposal, it seems, was very generally approved; but nevertheless, it was at last negatived on the representation of a person who had once heard his lordship argue in the French language.
From Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) by Trollope, Frances Milton
Bayard interrupted him with a motion to adjourn, which was negatived by 4 to 35.
From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by White, Horace
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 Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
The doctor, with compressed lips, slightly shook a negativing head, as the Master raised interrogative brows.
From The Flying Legion by England, George Allan
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)
It is not probable, however, that the Government would refuse to build any line that would clearly subserve public, convenience, the conduct of the postal service negativing such a supposition....
From The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses by Larrabee, William
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