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Defying market expectations, Moody’s Ratings kept France’s credit rating unchanged at Aa3, assuming France successfully adopts a deficit-reducing budget for 2027, leaving the outlook negative.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 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

Although Carville has several things in common with other Louisiana towns, there are marked differences, both positive and negative.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

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 negatives — how could there not be massive job loss?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

In other words, for Spurs the pluses of building a new expensive stadium far outweigh the negatives, at least from a financial perspective.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

He switched on the darkroom light and pulled the negatives out of the bath and held them up to the light.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

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

For a moment he wondered whether the prisoners had been locked up there, but the notion was negatived immediately by the absence of a sentry.

From Swift and Sure by Herbert Strang

Webster alleged that this change made the copyright invalid, which contention was negatived by the U. S.

From Copyright: Its History and Its Law by Richard Rogers Bowker

The history of all religions clearly attests that there are two orders of principles--the natural and the positive, and, in some measure, two authorities of religious life which are intimately related without negativing each other.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker

“No!” came in a roar from up above, every man, in his excitement, negativing the proposal.

From The Kopje Garrison A Story of the Boer War by W. Boucher

How long am I to have the office of merely negativing assertions which are but supported by former assertions, in which John is ever helping Tom, and the elephant stands upon the tortoise?

From Apologia pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman

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

From Peveril of the Peak by Sir Walter Scott

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 Frederic Austin Ogg