negative

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

Hannah Pedone explained how the company reported negative free cash flow for the first time and looked ahead at how Alphabet will keep spending heavily over coming quarters.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026

Still, I knew there were things beyond anything I understood, and I was not completely negative.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen

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

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

For golf nerds, the Hagley Museum is a portal into the game’s past because it’s where Dallin eventually donated his vast collection of negatives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

Double negatives, ain’t, and other nonstandard forms soon became stigmatized by their association with the less prestigious dialects of English used by its poorer and less educated speakers.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

It was negatived with contempt, and the delegates separated.

From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Stanton, Henry B.

It is impossible to understand the text 'not so, not so' as negativing those distinctions of Brahman which had been stated previously.

From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by Thibaut, George

A large share of the work done was directed to assuring or negativing previous results.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)

On the contrary, it voted that the right of protest could not be recognized; and it found additional satisfaction in negativing an unusual number of the President's nominations.

From The Reign of Andrew Jackson by Ogg, Frederic Austin

‘An early answer will oblige, as, in case of your negativing the proposal, inquiry must be made of other publishers.—I am, gentlemen, yours truly, ‘C. Brontë.’

From Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Shorter, Clement King

It acted as an extravagant dream acts, abrogating all known laws of cause and effect, giving logic and science the lie, negativing probability, making the untrue true, the impossible convincingly manifest.

From Deadham Hard by Malet, Lucas