negating
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France can claim modest progress in negating employment regulations that disincentivize hiring, turning every worker into a ward for life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Boy Kavalier thinks he owns him, negating all necessity for his subject’s approval.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2025
Since that filing, four of their children have become adults, negating the need for a custody agreement for them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2024
Rather than directly address vehicle size, they tout emergent technologies, like pedestrian automatic emergency braking, that can theoretically avoid crashes entirely, negating the risk that hulking vehicles present in a collision.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2024
I apologize for the double negative, but it’s a real double negative of a situation, a bind from which negating the negation is truly the only escape.
From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
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