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After a string of negative audits and a scathing court-ordered review, it’s no secret that the Los Angeles homeless services system has flaws.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Perhaps the only seemingly negative news on Wednesday was a surge in the U.S. trade deficit in goods in August to $133 billion, the fourth largest on record.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

Well, maybe, but bonds’ negative returns really were foreseeable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Six tested positive for measles; four were negative.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

“Your use of a double negative actually works here,” she continues.

From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone

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

Zuckerberg's recent essay doesn't name names - but the Meta boss mimics Andreessen by questioning those who have warned about the negatives of future tech.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

That question is at the center of a new paper published in Nature Astronomy, where researchers examine the often-overlooked problem of "false negatives" in the search for extraterrestrial life.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 30, 2026

We might joke about looking “kempt” or being "couth," but in fact the negatives have no opposite forms—they’re either obsolete rarities or whimsical inventions.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

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

The proposal, it seems, was very generally approved; but nevertheless, it was at last negatived on the representation of a person who had once heard his lordship argue in the French language.

From Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) by Frances Milton Trollope

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

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

From Peveril of the Peak by Sir Walter Scott

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

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

“No!” came in a roar from up above, every man, in his excitement, negativing the proposal.

From The Kopje Garrison A Story of the Boer War by W. Boucher

He said he could not tolerate the ordinary gravestone, which always looked, to him, as if the wind might blow it over, thus negativing the idea of solidity.

From The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett