negatives

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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

In an exclusive interview with BBC Sport, Di Maria says Van Gaal zeroed in on negatives in his game, never the positives, which led him to "hate" being at Old Trafford.

From BBC • May 26, 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

One of the only negatives about the film is that there should have been just a little bit more of this, because it feels like they don’t want to puff themselves up too much.

From Salon • Apr. 28, 2026

Descartes thought that these numbers were even worse than negative numbers; he came up with a scornful name for the square roots of negatives: imaginary numbers.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife