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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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026

In a milieu where every fold and crease, every millimeter of negative draft or change of curvature, adds cost, the S5 saves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

"They're all trade offs - I would not take it as a negative, that Iris² is planning for less satellites."

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

The negative aspect is that it means that all intervals except for octaves are slightly out of tune with regard to the actual harmonic series.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

It includes an architectural model and original blueprints of the Integratron, as well as nearly 630 photographs, negatives and slides, more than 250 audio recordings, 8-millimeter film footage, books, publications and other records and ephemera.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

What are the benefits and negatives of each?

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 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

The recruiter walked him through the process and the "positives and the negatives," Price says, and "it was good to see what kind of opportunities are out there".

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 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

But now, in this particular case it so happens that the answer admits of being conclusively negatived, by showing that the great assumption on which it reposes is demonstrably false.

From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by George John Romanes

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

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

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

From Wych Hazel by Susan Warner

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

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

She looked down, and shook her head, as if negativing his proposal with obstinate decision.

From Peveril of the Peak by Sir Walter Scott