negation
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The models also struggled to parse negation correctly, as in “take with food” versus “don’t take with food.”
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
In addition, large language models in AI tools have difficulty interpreting passages containing negation.
From Science Daily ● May 30, 2024
The negation of LeBron James is not related to sports, rather it is a cultural stain.
From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2024
Had Logan meant to underline Kendall’s name for emphasis or cross it out in an act of negation?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 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
Robert Murtagh from the FDA union, which represents senior civil servants, said it is "deeply frustrating" that formal negations over civil servant pay have not begun.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
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
Even worse, a sentence can have more negations than you think it does.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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