negative
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Now, there is room for coalition building, not just old-school negative politics.
From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026
He said that cycle forecast a peak around current levels but has now “rolled over, turning negative between now and at least late July with the risk of lower prices into October.”
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
The athleisure company has coped with negative commentary and disappointing product launches.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
Likewise, JBS’s North American beef business posted a negative earnings margin of 4.6% in the latest quarter.
From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026
The Indian mathematician Bhaskara wrote in the twelfth century that “there is no square root of a negative number, for a negative number is not a square.”
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Vocabulary lists containing negative
Tier 2 Words for the SBAC ELA Items
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The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 3
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