negative
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"But you know, you'll get 100 positive comments and it doesn't sink in but then you get one negative comment and it feels personal and it hurts."
From BBC • May 23, 2026
And the ideas of Hans Hofmann are behind many of the collage works here, where one positive element is balanced out by an equal and opposite negative one.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
The average S&P 500 return on a new chair’s first day is negative 0.29%, though the two worst performances in the modern era were largely coincidental.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
“Typically, reduction in head count is looked at as a negative, but we look at it very differently,” said McNulty, the CFO.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
Many times they solved equations only to get a negative result and concluded that their answer had no meaning.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Vocabulary lists containing negative
Tier 2 Words for the SBAC ELA Items
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