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Between the beginning of July and a month before election day, the S&P 500 has posted a loss half of the time with an average return of negative 2.4% over the past 40 years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

The case has profoundly shocked Malaysia and sparked a nationwide conversation about the negative effects of social media on children.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

So instead, Raman is positioning herself as the anti-establishment candidate and seeking to capitalize on the strong negative opinions of Bass many Pratt voters hold, Raman campaign insiders say.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

CEOs can’t take credit for the successes of A.I. while avoiding the negative externalities.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026

“And it just so happens that I have a GPS navigation app on my phone. Most fliers do. We tap in longitude 41.376495 and latitude negative 83.651040 and—BOOM!—this map shows us where to go.”

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein

What are the benefits and negatives of each?

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026

The negatives — how could there not be massive job loss?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

The main negatives are its manganese business, which posts a 3% miss on Ebitda, and Brazil Alumina, where Ebitda falls 33% short, the bank says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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

Suddenly I knew I could not go back up to that room with its mottled mirror, its dead lightbulb and its blank negatives.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

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 assertion, that they “earnestly seek” it, is completely negatived by the omission.

From The Crisis of Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-One In The Government of The United States. Its Cause, and How it Should be Met by A. D. Steight

When the bill came before the House, a motion was made to strike out this exception, and it was at first negatived by a majority of four.

From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White

The governor claimed the right of negativing the speaker chosen by the representatives, which was denied by them; and, each party persisting in its pretensions, the assembly was dissolved, and new elections took place.

From The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall

The terms of the description should be noted, as completely negativing the notion that the fact in question was anything like compulsory abolition of the right of individual ownership.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts by Alexander Maclaren

But Mr. Falkirk had reasons of his own for negativing that plan, and negatived it accordingly.

From Wych Hazel by Susan Warner

That is passing by this Convention altogether; it is negativing the States represented in it.

From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by L. E. (Lucius Eugene) Chittenden

But in negativing all means of arriving at truth except the letter of scripture interpreted by the inner light, he stood upon the same platform as the followers of George Fox.

From Milton by Mark Pattison