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He acknowledged many people had a "negative" view of food creators, but added: "People give them too much reverence in the first place. They're just people with an opinion."

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

"By contrast, a change of leadership at EssilorLuxottica would, in our view, be negative, as the group's strategy has been devised and implemented consistently by Milleri over the past few years," Equita said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

And for those who don’t trade options, and who have what Emanuel calls “an AI-tilted portfolio”, some stocks with negative beta could be added so that “you and your portfolio will sleep better at night.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026

Although this condition is linked to a wide variety of negative health effects, the public chronically underestimates its seriousness.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

Even Mr. Brademas has to admit that the negative of the swastikas has been turned around by the positive of the paper chain.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

"There were a handful of positives and negatives last week, but the main thing that let us down was that we created so many chances, but mistakes at crucial times cost us," said Erasmus.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

As to whether the positives of sports gambling outweigh the negatives, his conclusion that it depends on whom you ask is unsatisfying.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

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

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 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 Frances Milton Trollope

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 Samuel Adams Drake

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

They have determined that the King shall have a suspensive and iterative veto: that is, that after negativing a law, it cannot be presented again till after a new election.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph

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 Lucas Malet

Now if we are convinced that evil in ourselves has no power unless we give it power, that is the first step toward making our efforts positive and so negativing the evil.

From Nerves and Common Sense by Annie Payson Call

It is supposed that the King, when he wrote the note negativing the coalition, either depended on Pitt, or meant by that means to force him.

From Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1 by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of