negatives

Example Sentences

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At times, he both flew the plane and took the pictures, only needing a helper to swap out the glass plate negatives.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

In policing, an AI system must balance false positives, where the system flags a threat that does not exist, and false negatives, where it fails to detect a real danger.

From Salon • May 12, 2026

In a note to clients late on Wednesday, Truist’s Will Stein listed Musk’s “HW3 capitulation” as one of the negatives coming out of the Tesla call.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 23, 2026

Reputedly, he destroyed hundreds of his own negatives, and the celluloid was melted down -- and some of it used as raw material to make soldiers' boots during World War I.

From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026

A half-dozen film negatives curled up around it like dead leaves.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin