negatives

Example Sentences

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The large-format glass negatives preserve lots of details about clothing, the texture of skin on hands and faces, and the surrounding environments.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026

Social media means that there’s no intermediary, and there are positives and negatives to that scenario.

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

"There are way more positives than negatives and I think if we give up on this opportunity, if we let it slip, then we're failing the future generation."

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

This was followed by a crazed string of negatives: “No! I won’t! I will not! You can’t make me! Uh-uh! Never! No!”

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart