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negative

[neg-uh-tiv] / ˈnɛg ə tɪv /


NOUN
contradiction
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The CEO’s comments provide a negative read-across to premium and mass automakers operating in China with non-China-specific product strategies and products, Citi adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

"So when we do see those negative headlines, it can be quite upsetting."

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 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

“I think the bar is high for many companies, and with cautious to negative market sentiment, it could be a tricky week,” Rahbari said over email.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2026

I think about how people use “dark” as a negative.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

There is no right or wrong way to play football but, as this piece has attempted to showcase, every approach has its positives and negatives.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

It’s not necessarily only negatives driving yields higher.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 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

Suddenly I knew I could not go back up to that room with its mottled mirror, its dead lightbulb and its blank negatives.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

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

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

Bayard interrupted him with a motion to adjourn, which was negatived by 4 to 35.

From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White

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

It even referred directly to one of my tentative hypotheses, at once negativing it and giving another altogether satisfactory.

From The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation by Edward Maitland

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

From Wych Hazel by Susan Warner

This they proceeded to do, negativing absolutely my desire to accompany them.

From Gold by Stewart Edward White

“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


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