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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

“This negative campaigning is so ugly,” said Shabana Siddiqi, a retired physician who’d initially liked Ramaswamy when he was running for president.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026

Some have positive charges, while others have negative charges.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

The ISM said manufacturers’ general mood worsened for a third straight month, with its survey showing a 1-to-2 ratio of positive to negative sentiment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

Combine and define in + active; active + ity; in + active + ity.—What is the negative of "active"? Ans.

From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton

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

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

He removed his negatives and put them away.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

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

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

The motion was negatived by 5 to 31.

From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White

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

We satisfy ourselves with negativing in the Deity everything that constitutes existence, so far as we are capable of conceiving of existence.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

The history of all religions clearly attests that there are two orders of principles--the natural and the positive, and, in some measure, two authorities of religious life which are intimately related without negativing each other.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker

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