negative
Example Sentences
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Small-business profits, in the aggregate, are still in the black, but growth recently turned negative for the first time in a year and a half, Bowley said, citing Bank of America’s spending data.
From Barron's
The owner of a narrowboat hire company near the site of a collapsed canal embankment has said it will have a "massively negative effect" on business.
From BBC
Or perhaps his reputation is already at rock bottom and this will only reinforce existing negative impressions.
From BBC
Today’s negative narrative around the feasibility of the American dream doesn’t match what most Americans believe about their own lives and prospects.
Consumers’ assessment of business and labor-market conditions plummeted, with views on current business conditions negative for the first time since September 2024, the survey said.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.