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Alphabet’s free cash flow came in at negative $5.9 billion—the first negative print since the company went public in 2004.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

“Even when food is available for testing, contamination can be uneven, so a negative test does not necessarily rule a product out,” Rimoin said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

Hannah Pedone explained how the company reported negative free cash flow for the first time and looked ahead at how Alphabet will keep spending heavily over coming quarters.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026

But Sell also has mortgages and commercial notes on his properties, putting his net worth as low as negative $2.8 million and as high as $13.9 million.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026

“And it just so happens that I have a GPS navigation app on my phone. Most fliers do. We tap in longitude 41.376495 and latitude negative 83.651040 and—BOOM!—this map shows us where to go.”

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein

Researchers note that these kinds of false negatives are particularly challenging because scientists often recognize them only after the fact.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 30, 2026

After consulting with experts and good governance groups, the commission agreed the benefits of bifurcation outweighed the negatives, and it passed unanimously by the commission.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026

She felt the positives were outweighed by the negatives.

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

The large-format glass negatives preserve lots of details about clothing, the texture of skin on hands and faces, and the surrounding environments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026

What they had in common is what kept them apart Mr. Paul had told me to use my head, so I started stacking up the positives against the negatives.

From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe

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 Chapman, Allen

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 White, Horace

The importance of the discovery is in negativing the theory that the crime was committed for the sake of robbery.

From The Queen Against Owen by Upward, Allen

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 Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

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 Pattison, Mark

On the contrary, it voted that the right of protest could not be recognized; and it found additional satisfaction in negativing an unusual number of the President's nominations.

From The Reign of Andrew Jackson by Ogg, Frederic Austin

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 Maclaren, Alexander