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“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

The result was hit by a 500-million-euro charge the carmaker booked for stopping US production of its electric ID.4, Volkswagen said, as well as "negative mix effects", meaning the automotive giant sold more lower-margin products.

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

Bliss argued that Garfield would see the reports in the newspapers, and any negative information would discourage him and affect his recuperation.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

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

At times, he both flew the plane and took the pictures, only needing a helper to swap out the glass plate negatives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

They did not realize that one photo was missing until Mrs. Richardson lifted the last to reveal a bundle of negatives.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

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 Romanes, George John

The French officers much preferred acting on an independent line, but the proposal was wisely negatived by the commander in chief.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams

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 Malet, Lucas

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 Maclaren, Alexander

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

The governor claimed the right of negativing the speaker chosen by the representatives, which was denied by them; and, each party persisting in its pretensions, the assembly was dissolved, and new elections took place.

From The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by Marshall, John

Sir Hugh Allan published a sworn affidavit, negativing McMullen's charges, and McMullen himself had subsequently admitted that his charges had been hasty and inaccurate.

From The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 by Dent, John Charles