negative

“I hate to be a negative person,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Case in point: Micron’s stock was choppy in early Wednesday trade, rising as much as 3.6% before briefly turning negative and then inching back into the black.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

The earnings per share figure includes a one-cent negative impact from discontinued operations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Frontier AI labs and new-age cloud providers are seeing negative free cash flow, and it doesn’t help that data-center server prices are increasing due to rising memory prices, he said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

That smile erased most of my negative thoughts.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

Entirely unsung in his day, Baer, who died in 1994, quietly stashed away in his Rhode Island basement more than 4,000 negatives shot between 1945 and 1954.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

There is no right or wrong way to play football but, as this piece has attempted to showcase, every approach has its positives and negatives.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

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

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

Mr. Gibson's motion in Parliament to abolish all taxes on knowledge; bearing of these taxes; motion negatived; evasion of the excise on paper by the publisher of the "Greenock Newscloth," 124.

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

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

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 Alexander Johnston

The doctor, with compressed lips, slightly shook a negativing head, as the Master raised interrogative brows.

From The Flying Legion by George Allan England

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

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