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But, when it comes to the specific case of demanding the Lincoln Fighting Zebras to take down team photos at their beloved drive-through, the public response could be net negative for the brand, he continued.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

Six tested positive for measles; four were negative.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

The sharp selloff in the Treasury market has many bond funds facing negative total returns in 2026, and bond exchange-traded funds in the red for the year.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Ten-year Treasurys would have a return of roughly negative 2%, and 30-year bonds would lose about 8%, according to TD’s estimates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

MODEL: "The amiable qualities of Joseph Warren caused his death to be deeply regretted by all Americans."—What noun can you form from "amiable," meaning the quality of being amiable?—What is the negative of "amiable"? Ans.

From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton

It’s not necessarily only negatives driving yields higher.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026

And there are negatives that investors may be overlooking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

The negatives — how could there not be massive job loss?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

"They're trying to make the case that the positives will far outweigh some of those negatives that the public backlash is pointing out," he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 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

Powell resumed his speech and made a much longer one than his first, at the end of which he moved an adjournment, negatived by 4 to 32.

From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White

The motion was negatived by 5 to 31.

From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White

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 Lucas Malet

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 Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke

The governor claimed the right of negativing the speaker chosen by the representatives, which was denied by them; and, each party persisting in its pretensions, the assembly was dissolved, and new elections took place.

From The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall

How long am I to have the office of merely negativing assertions which are but supported by former assertions, in which John is ever helping Tom, and the elephant stands upon the tortoise?

From Apologia pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman

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