negative
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But the negative impact “came a little sooner and deeper than we thought,” John Pitzer, Intel’s corporate vice president of investor relations, told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
And the company’s heavy spending is likely to leave it free-cash-flow negative for some time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
Policymakers began a historic tightening campaign, lifting its benchmark rate from negative territory in mid-2022 to a record four percent in late 2023.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
According to another technical indicator, negative sentiment surrounding Alphabet could be reaching a peak.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
The timing of these tests is important to the patients of Carville, because the clinical rules are clear: Residents may not leave until they receive twelve consecutive negative tests.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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According to a Wednesday note from Bernstein analyst Mark Shmulik, the initial read on Alphabet’s quarter offered far more negatives than positives.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 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
Even their personal inconsistencies seemed like photographic negatives of each other’s.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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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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The proposition was negatived by every one present old enough to have a voice in the matter.
From The Young Dragoon Every Day Life of a Soldier by A.W. Drayson
The young Count negatived the proposal with a hasty gesture.
From Fickle Fortune by Elisabeth Burstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)
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
It acted as an extravagant dream acts, abrogating all known laws of cause and effect, giving logic and science the lie, negativing probability, making the untrue true, the impossible convincingly manifest.
From Deadham Hard by Lucas Malet
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
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
On the contrary, it voted that the right of protest could not be recognized; and it found additional satisfaction in negativing an unusual number of the President's nominations.
From The Reign of Andrew Jackson by Frederic Austin Ogg
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