negative
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Bisignano asked his direct reports to go into the survey submission tool and figure out which employees had written negative reviews, some of the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
"I was going through a divorce and… needed something to occupy my time and my mind so I'm not focusing on negative stuff", she remembers.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
"When you upregulate SORLA, you can suppress the negative effects found in tauopathies," said Huijie Huang, PhD, a staff scientist in the Huang lab at Sanford Burnham Prebys and lead author of the study.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
In an interview with the Guardian ahead of the release of “The Odyssey,” Nolan said he was “petrified” by the idea of a negative response from audiences.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
Zero must sit in its rightful place on the number line, before one and after negative one.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Researchers note that these kinds of false negatives are particularly challenging because scientists often recognize them only after the fact.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 30, 2026
After consulting with experts and good governance groups, the commission agreed the benefits of bifurcation outweighed the negatives, and it passed unanimously by the commission.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026
The large-format glass negatives preserve lots of details about clothing, the texture of skin on hands and faces, and the surrounding environments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
Social media means that there’s no intermediary, and there are positives and negatives to that scenario.
From Salon ● May 12, 2026
Suddenly I knew I could not go back up to that room with its mottled mirror, its dead lightbulb and its blank negatives.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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
This minister suffered his motion to be negatived by 248 against 194!
From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Lady Anne
"Not much!" negatived Big Denny, looking bigger than ever as he rose to the full magnitude of his final declaration--"as switch towerman for the Great Northern Railway at sixty dollars a month!"
From Ralph of the Roundhouse by Chapman, Allen
The South has vindicated her sincerity, her honor, on that point by bringing forward a provision negativing, in express terms, any such effect as a result of this bill.
From American Eloquence, Volume 3 Studies In American Political History (1897) by Johnston, Alexander
The doctor, with compressed lips, slightly shook a negativing head, as the Master raised interrogative brows.
From The Flying Legion by England, George Allan
They had Grove's Dictionary as a starter, and by carefully negativing every date and fact printed in it, they were sure to hit the truth somewhere.
From Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques by Huneker, James
That is passing by this Convention altogether; it is negativing the States represented in it.
From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by Chittenden, L. E. (Lucius Eugene)
“No!” came in a roar from up above, every man, in his excitement, negativing the proposal.
From The Kopje Garrison A Story of the Boer War by Boucher, W.
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