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The funding raises come after Meta reported negative free cash flow for the first time since 2012, the year it went public.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Becerra may also be sympathetic to environmental justice communities — poorer neighborhoods, often of color — that have experienced disproportionately negative effects from extraction industries such as oil drilling and mining.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Sentiment toward AI stocks has been unambiguously negative in recent weeks and the midterm results might suggest to some investors that the sector’s worst fears were realized.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

A positive result does not automatically mean there is cancer, and a negative result is not a guaranteed all-clear.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

The negative aspect is that it means that all intervals except for octaves are slightly out of tune with regard to the actual harmonic series.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

According to a Wednesday note from Bernstein analyst Mark Shmulik, the initial read on Alphabet’s quarter offered far more negatives than positives.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

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

And there are negatives that investors may be overlooking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

Descartes thought that these numbers were even worse than negative numbers; he came up with a scornful name for the square roots of negatives: imaginary numbers.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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

In consequence of these shuffling contrivances against justice, this most serious inquiry was negatived, while every principle of right was set at open defiance, and the most honourable of the community privately insulted.

From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Lady Anne Hamilton

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

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

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

From Gold by Stewart Edward White

It is not probable, however, that the Government would refuse to build any line that would clearly subserve public, convenience, the conduct of the postal service negativing such a supposition....

From The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses by William Larrabee

The importance of the discovery is in negativing the theory that the crime was committed for the sake of robbery.

From The Queen Against Owen by Allen Upward

We satisfy ourselves with negativing in the Deity everything that constitutes existence, so far as we are capable of conceiving of existence.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike