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I remember Maresca making a couple of negative substitutions this time last year when his Chelsea side went down to 10 men early on at Old Trafford.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

So instead, Raman is positioning herself as the anti-establishment candidate and seeking to capitalize on the strong negative opinions of Bass many Pratt voters hold, Raman campaign insiders say.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

CEOs can’t take credit for the successes of A.I. while avoiding the negative externalities.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026

"People have a negative image of lobbyists. They picture secret deals in dark corridors. The reality is very different," D'haese said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

Like how negative numbers deserve empathy because no one should ever feel lower than zero.

From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds

It’s not necessarily only negatives driving yields higher.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 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

"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

Number one was okay since it was negatives and positives and those aren’t too bad.

From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers

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

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

These were almost uniformly opposed by the "men of the greatest weight in the community;" your weighty men, though slow to devise, being always great at "negativing."

From Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete by Washington Irving

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

This they proceeded to do, negativing absolutely my desire to accompany them.

From Gold by Stewart Edward White

The history of all religions clearly attests that there are two orders of principles--the natural and the positive, and, in some measure, two authorities of religious life which are intimately related without negativing each other.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker

The terms of the description should be noted, as completely negativing the notion that the fact in question was anything like compulsory abolition of the right of individual ownership.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts by Alexander Maclaren