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[neg-uh-tiv] / ˈnɛg ə tɪv /


NOUN
contradiction
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“Michelin now expects slightly negative volumes in 4Q and FY26, versus previously expecting a rebound,” the bank said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

The intense AI spending led Meta’s free cash flow for the quarter to turn negative for the first time since 2012.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

“For medium-term investors, current yield levels offer attractive carry and a favorable asymmetry in expected returns,” with positive outcomes outweighing negative ones, said Luca Cazzulani, head of strategy at the Investment Institute by UniCredit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

One of the last analysts with a negative rating on Intel’s stock has just changed his tune.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

Many times they solved equations only to get a negative result and concluded that their answer had no meaning.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

It includes an architectural model and original blueprints of the Integratron, as well as nearly 630 photographs, negatives and slides, more than 250 audio recordings, 8-millimeter film footage, books, publications and other records and ephemera.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

And there are negatives that investors may be overlooking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

What are the benefits and negatives of each?

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026

Zuckerberg's recent essay doesn't name names - but the Meta boss mimics Andreessen by questioning those who have warned about the negatives of future tech.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

He switched on the darkroom light and pulled the negatives out of the bath and held them up to the light.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

Referring to Erskine May, Parliament's ancient and respected rule book, he said MPs should never be asked to vote again on the same proposition if they had already "negatived" it during the current Parliamentary session.

From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2019

With gentle but resolute firmness, His Majesty negatived this proposal, hailed a passing motorist who, overwhelmed, obeyed with alacrity a royal command that he convey Miss Betts to her residence in Uxbridge.

From Time Magazine Archive

Miss Bingley moved with alacrity to the pianoforte, and after a polite request that Elizabeth would lead the way, which the other as politely and more earnestly negatived, she seated herself.

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

The proposal, it seems, was very generally approved; but nevertheless, it was at last negatived on the representation of a person who had once heard his lordship argue in the French language.

From Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) by Frances Milton Trollope

The motion was negatived by 5 to 31.

From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White

How long am I to have the office of merely negativing assertions which are but supported by former assertions, in which John is ever helping Tom, and the elephant stands upon the tortoise?

From Apologia pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman

‘An early answer will oblige, as, in case of your negativing the proposal, inquiry must be made of other publishers.—I am, gentlemen, yours truly, ‘C. Brontë.’

From Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Clement King Shorter

The importance of the discovery is in negativing the theory that the crime was committed for the sake of robbery.

From The Queen Against Owen by Allen Upward

It acted as an extravagant dream acts, abrogating all known laws of cause and effect, giving logic and science the lie, negativing probability, making the untrue true, the impossible convincingly manifest.

From Deadham Hard by Lucas Malet

But in negativing all means of arriving at truth except the letter of scripture interpreted by the inner light, he stood upon the same platform as the followers of George Fox.

From Milton by Mark Pattison


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