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negatives

NOUN
contradiction
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The Yale prints were made from the remaining negatives in the 1990s by Gerd Sander, August Sander’s grandson, and are based on vintage prints and the artist’s notes.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026

Social media means that there’s no intermediary, and there are positives and negatives to that scenario.

From Salon • May 12, 2026

In a note to clients late on Wednesday, Truist’s Will Stein listed Musk’s “HW3 capitulation” as one of the negatives coming out of the Tesla call.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 23, 2026

"There are way more positives than negatives and I think if we give up on this opportunity, if we let it slip, then we're failing the future generation."

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

I made myself a little dark-room in a corner of the music building, and in there I loaded my glass plates and developed my negatives and enlarged them.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl



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