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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

His net worth, according to his disclosure, is as low as negative $145,000 and as high as $30,000 in the black.

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

On the negative side, arts teachers are seen as separate “specialists,” which erroneously relieves the classroom teacher of any responsibility for incorporating the arts into the daily classroom experience.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

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

In an exclusive interview with BBC Sport, Di Maria says Van Gaal zeroed in on negatives in his game, never the positives, which led him to "hate" being at Old Trafford.

From BBC ● May 26, 2026

Dallin’s vast collection of negatives, housed at the Hagley Museum, remains an invaluable resource for golf course architects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

But at the last moment Mia had burned the prints and negatives, for reasons even Pearl could not fathom.

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

The motion was negatived by 5 to 31.

From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by White, Horace

The proposal, it seems, was very generally approved; but nevertheless, it was at last negatived on the representation of a person who had once heard his lordship argue in the French language.

From Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) by Trollope, Frances Milton

It is impossible to understand the text 'not so, not so' as negativing those distinctions of Brahman which had been stated previously.

From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by Thibaut, George

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 Johnston, Alexander

That is passing by this Convention altogether; it is negativing the States represented in it.

From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by Chittenden, L. E. (Lucius Eugene)

However the Dean's motive was very good, and before the meal ended Sir Winterton forgave him, while still sternly negativing the course which his diplomacy suggested.

From Quisanté by Hope, Anthony

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

From Wych Hazel by Warner, Susan