negation

Example Sentences

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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

In addition, large language models in AI tools have difficulty interpreting passages containing negation.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2024

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

From Salon • May 3, 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

The answer is that negation is easy to understand when the proposition being negated is plausible or tempting.23 Compare the negations in these two columns: A whale is not a fish.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker