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And while the company brought in record revenue in the third quarter, it also reported negative free cash flow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

A test on a suspected case, in Rivers State, in the Niger Delta, came back negative, Idris told reporters.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

“I think the bar is high for many companies, and with cautious to negative market sentiment, it could be a tricky week,” Rahbari said over email.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2026

For the Mets, Peralta put up a 4.99 ERA and a negative WAR.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026

I think about how people use “dark” as a negative.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

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

And there are negatives that investors may be overlooking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

My advice on double negatives: Never say never.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

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

When the bill came before the House, a motion was made to strike out this exception, and it was at first negatived by a majority of four.

From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White

It is the Nabob himself, negativing all these pretences.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

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

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

He said he could not tolerate the ordinary gravestone, which always looked, to him, as if the wind might blow it over, thus negativing the idea of solidity.

From The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett

A large share of the work done was directed to assuring or negativing previous results.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke