- present participle of negate.
negating
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But Morris was narrowly offside on the play, negating the goal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
Car buyers used to be able to travel to a factory and pick up a vehicle directly from a manufacturer, negating the shipping costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026
This approach should not be confused with toxic positivity, which is when people only look for the positive while negating any negative emotions.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2025
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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