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“A lot of unforced errors, a lot of negative headlines,” Gates said of those decisions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Six tested positive for measles; four were negative.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

The sharp selloff in the Treasury market has many bond funds facing negative total returns in 2026, and bond exchange-traded funds in the red for the year.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Solomon’s hobby of DJing had drawn criticism and negative headlines, personalizing the drama at the bank.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

“No, you were right. I was being really negative because it made it easier to leave if I hated Churchill, you know? And I didn’t want to rock the boat,” said George.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

It’s not necessarily only negatives driving yields higher.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026

"They're trying to make the case that the positives will far outweigh some of those negatives that the public backlash is pointing out," he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

As to whether the positives of sports gambling outweigh the negatives, his conclusion that it depends on whom you ask is unsatisfying.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

That question is at the center of a new paper published in Nature Astronomy, where researchers examine the often-overlooked problem of "false negatives" in the search for extraterrestrial life.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 30, 2026

A file box of negatives, and her cameras.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

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

He was supported by Mr. Roebuck, but the motion was negatived, 190 to 89.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various

Powell resumed his speech and made a much longer one than his first, at the end of which he moved an adjournment, negatived by 4 to 32.

From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White

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

But Mr. Falkirk had reasons of his own for negativing that plan, and negatived it accordingly.

From Wych Hazel by Susan Warner

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 L. E. (Lucius Eugene) Chittenden

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

We satisfy ourselves with negativing in the Deity everything that constitutes existence, so far as we are capable of conceiving of existence.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike