negative
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The analysis showed that higher levels of sea-level rise produced increasingly negative effects on mangrove carbon storage.
From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026
Vargas was bruised, but he told Arizona reporters that all tests came back negative.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
“Investors have already priced in strong expectations around the AI theme, so any negative signal related to earnings, growth outlooks, or capital expenditure could trigger stronger selling pressure in the leading sectors,” she said.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
“The exit by a fan with such high visibility sends a negative signal of its own,” they said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
Descartes thought that these numbers were even worse than negative numbers; he came up with a scornful name for the square roots of negatives: imaginary numbers.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Vocabulary lists containing negative
Tier 2 Words for the SBAC ELA Items
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