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"It felt like such a positive to be involved in something out of such a negative situation."

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Bloom reported better-than-expected third-quarter earnings last month, although investors eyed its spending and negative cash flow.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

The funding raises come after Meta reported negative free cash flow for the first time since 2012, the year it went public.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Becerra may also be sympathetic to environmental justice communities — poorer neighborhoods, often of color — that have experienced disproportionately negative effects from extraction industries such as oil drilling and mining.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

“You don’t want to think about nothin’! When you think, half the time you’re thinkin’ negative thoughts.

From "The Million Dollar Shot" by Dan Gutman

According to a Wednesday note from Bernstein analyst Mark Shmulik, the initial read on Alphabet’s quarter offered far more negatives than positives.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

And there are negatives that investors may be overlooking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

What are the benefits and negatives of each?

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

A file box of negatives, and her cameras.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

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

All of them negatived: substantive motion proposed: lost as well.

From Aspects of Modern Oxford by A. D. (Alfred Denis) Godley

"Those are my orders," the Bat replied gently; for the girl's face, scarlet with protest, negatived the idea of fear.

From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Stanley J. Weyman

But in negativing all means of arriving at truth except the letter of scripture interpreted by the inner light, he stood upon the same platform as the followers of George Fox.

From Milton by Mark Pattison

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

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

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

This they proceeded to do, negativing absolutely my desire to accompany them.

From Gold by Stewart Edward White