negative
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So far, the girl has not shown any negative reactions, her grandmother added.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
Following a negative asylum decision, Russian nationals are often given the chance to leave independently, but a rising number are being forcibly returned to Russia, usually escorted via third countries.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
To that, as to many of the negative responses, especially in our peculiarly sickly times, it is possible simply to respond, “Yes, isn’t that great?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
The higher charge of 0.18 ringgit/kWh, up from 0.14 ringgit/kWh appears slightly negative for renewable energy developers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
It was okay to be eager and excited, but the negative emotions like fear and anger were not good when working root.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
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It’s not necessarily only negatives driving yields higher.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 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
The negatives — how could there not be massive job loss?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
In other words, for Spurs the pluses of building a new expensive stadium far outweigh the negatives, at least from a financial perspective.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
These two negatives do not equal a positive.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
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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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Against this proposal great popular clamour arose; the majority of the squatting members of the Assembly combined with the Opposition, and the second reading of the bill was negatived by 27 votes to 16.
From Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information by Queensland
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 South has vindicated her sincerity, her honor, on that point by bringing forward a provision negativing, in express terms, any such effect as a result of this bill.
From American Eloquence, Volume 3 Studies In American Political History (1897) by Alexander Johnston
However the Dean's motive was very good, and before the meal ended Sir Winterton forgave him, while still sternly negativing the course which his diplomacy suggested.
From Quisanté by Anthony Hope
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
The old question, “Who shall stand in the Holy Place?” is not answered in the gospel by reducing the conditions, or negativing the old reply.
From The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon by Alexander Maclaren
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
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