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“We expect a strong negative reaction from the sector, including the potential for greenfield projects to be put on hold by Regis and others given the reduced certainty of returns,” says UBS.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

That signal reveals important information about a material, including whether its current is carried by positive or negative charges, how many charge carriers are present, and how easily they can move.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026

They look for stocks that move in the opposite direction to the market — what, in finance terms, is called negative beta.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

Boyle, despite his own left-wing politics, said he had not set out to make a negative film about Murdoch, now aged 95.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

And right when Mrs. Stevens would think it was over, Cynthia would lift up and ask, "You know what I would do if I was a negative number?"

From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds

What are the benefits and negatives of each?

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026

The negatives — how could there not be massive job loss?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

The main negatives are its manganese business, which posts a 3% miss on Ebitda, and Brazil Alumina, where Ebitda falls 33% short, the bank says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

"There were a handful of positives and negatives last week, but the main thing that let us down was that we created so many chances, but mistakes at crucial times cost us," said Erasmus.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

He had sat here holding blank negatives, masterpieces of human ingenuity wasted.

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

"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 Allen Chapman

For a moment he wondered whether the prisoners had been locked up there, but the notion was negatived immediately by the absence of a sentry.

From Swift and Sure by Herbert Strang

The old question, “Who shall stand in the Holy Place?” is not answered in the gospel by reducing the conditions, or negativing the old reply.

From The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon by Alexander Maclaren

“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 W. Boucher

Now if we are convinced that evil in ourselves has no power unless we give it power, that is the first step toward making our efforts positive and so negativing the evil.

From Nerves and Common Sense by Annie Payson Call

So far, therefore, from negativing and excluding any obscure and perhaps supernormal agency, the suggestion theory leaves the way for any such agency broadly open.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers

Sir Hugh Allan published a sworn affidavit, negativing McMullen's charges, and McMullen himself had subsequently admitted that his charges had been hasty and inaccurate.

From The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 by John Charles Dent