negatives

Example Sentences

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Dallin’s vast collection of negatives, housed at the Hagley Museum, remains an invaluable resource for golf course architects.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

In policing, an AI system must balance false positives, where the system flags a threat that does not exist, and false negatives, where it fails to detect a real danger.

From Salon • May 12, 2026

In a note to clients late on Wednesday, Truist’s Will Stein listed Musk’s “HW3 capitulation” as one of the negatives coming out of the Tesla call.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 23, 2026

"There are way more positives than negatives and I think if we give up on this opportunity, if we let it slip, then we're failing the future generation."

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

When the pictures come back from being developed, the negatives come too.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood