negation

Singh formally apologised to the nation in 2005 in parliament, saying the violence were "the negation of the concept of nationhood enshrined in our constitution".

From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2024

Here, the researchers found that participants took longer to interpret phrases with negation than they did phrases without negation -- indicating, not surprisingly given the greater complexity, that negation slows down our processing of meaning.

From Science Daily ● May 30, 2024

And my idea of degrowth is not a negation of technology.

From Salon ● May 3, 2024

But the statement can be translated quickly if you know that “∧” stands for “and at the same time” and that “¬” is a negation.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 12, 2023

In the intended reading, the negation operator not has scope over the universally quantified proposition “All doors will open.”

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

"Naturally, when you are in contract negations, there is always going to be speculation and unless you hear it from me, that's what it is," Hamilton said.

From BBC ● May 25, 2023

As in his earlier work, Saunders’ relentlessly humane vision of life, always in comic search of our deepest negations of each other, is remarkably vivid.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2022

He replaced Mohammed Abdel-Aty who oversaw years of technical negations with Ethiopia over its controversial dam on the Nile River’s main tributary.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 13, 2022

It decided to lower the rate by 8.2% after nine months of negations.

From Reuters ● Aug. 12, 2022

Like most advice on style that is couched as a commandment rather than an explanation, the flat directive to avoid negations is almost useless.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker