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negative

[neg-uh-tiv] / ˈnɛg ə tɪv /


NOUN
contradiction
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I don't fear the negative outcome that can come.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

“There’s been a lot of negative campaigning by Hilton, but it doesn’t seem to have had any impact,” DiCamillo said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

Amazon’s stock on Friday also took a header after the company reported higher than expected capital spending on AI and negative cash flow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

The other three companies reported negative free cash flow for the third quarter, meaning that they spent more on infrastructure, data centers and related purchases than they generated in cash through their businesses.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

Dr. Estrada helped me see that these negative thoughts were nothing more than that.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

Entirely unsung in his day, Baer, who died in 1994, quietly stashed away in his Rhode Island basement more than 4,000 negatives shot between 1945 and 1954.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

It’s not necessarily only negatives driving yields higher.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 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

What they had in common is what kept them apart Mr. Paul had told me to use my head, so I started stacking up the positives against the negatives.

From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe

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

Besides, to what end these trivial objections when good and evil alike are negatived?

From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Honor? de Balzac

P. S. August 16th.—It appears to me not amiss to enclose to you a report of a committee on the 10th, as it stands negatived on the journals of Congress.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution Volume 7. by Various

So far, therefore, from negativing and excluding any obscure and perhaps supernormal agency, the suggestion theory leaves the way for any such agency broadly open.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers

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

She looked down, and shook her head, as if negativing his proposal with obstinate decision.

From Peveril of the Peak by Sir Walter Scott

A large share of the work done was directed to assuring or negativing previous results.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke

They had Grove's Dictionary as a starter, and by carefully negativing every date and fact printed in it, they were sure to hit the truth somewhere.

From Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques by James Huneker


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