negative
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In a written statement, Public and Preventative Health Minister Nerys Evans said the latest evidence suggested a link between consumption of high-caffeine energy drinks and negative health outcomes in children.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
Qualcomm faces the loss of Apple’s business and the negative impact of high memory costs on overall smartphone demand.
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
Over and over to drown out the negative voice.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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"We made lots of lists - lots of positives, lots of negatives," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
It includes an architectural model and original blueprints of the Integratron, as well as nearly 630 photographs, negatives and slides, more than 250 audio recordings, 8-millimeter film footage, books, publications and other records and ephemera.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
What are the benefits and negatives of each?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
"They're trying to make the case that the positives will far outweigh some of those negatives that the public backlash is pointing out," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The positives outweighed the negatives by a ton.
From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe
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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
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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
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"Not much!" negatived Big Denny, looking bigger than ever as he rose to the full magnitude of his final declaration--"as switch towerman for the Great Northern Railway at sixty dollars a month!"
From Ralph of the Roundhouse by Allen Chapman
The motion was negatived by 5 to 31.
From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White
It is the Nabob himself, negativing all these pretences.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
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
‘An early answer will oblige, as, in case of your negativing the proposal, inquiry must be made of other publishers.—I am, gentlemen, yours truly, ‘C. Brontë.’
From Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Clement King Shorter
Surely, too, the accidental element may play its part in Nature without negativing design in the theists view.
From Evolution and Ethics by Thomas Henry Huxley
The doctor, with compressed lips, slightly shook a negativing head, as the Master raised interrogative brows.
From The Flying Legion by George Allan England
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