negative
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“Moreover, investors continue to believe the conflict will be a temporary one, with the oil futures curve still having a sharp negative slope.”
From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026
Bun X has received a number of negative reviews on social media, TripAdvisor and Google, Taylor says.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
The survey’s headline index rose to 11, from a slightly negative minus 0.2 in March.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
Intel’s free cash flow was a cumulative negative $44 billion between 2022 and 2025—a $107 billion swing from the prior four years—as investment spending shot higher.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
The Indian mathematician Bhaskara wrote in the twelfth century that “there is no square root of a negative number, for a negative number is not a square.”
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Vocabulary lists containing negative
Tier 2 Words for the SBAC ELA Items
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The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 3
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