affirmative

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Recent Examples of affirmative The weather might not have been the best, but for anyone looking for reassurance that Mardi Gras was going to stay weird in 2023, the evening provided an energetic affirmative. al, 11 Feb. 2023 The answer, to my mind, is a resounding affirmative. Arthur Knight, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Aug. 2022 Shortly after, Gomez herself responded with a resounding affirmative. Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 16 May 2022 Use liberally the affirmatives Yes, ma’am and Yes, sir, having grown up under threat of a stiff switch. Melissa Lyttle, Smithsonian, 13 Dec. 2017 See All Example Sentences for affirmative
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Noun
  • Because there’s no need for a credit score, no official approval process and no institutional guardrails, even those still navigating early financial independence are being nudged into debt with a single tap.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
  • The new strategy would continue the current vaccine approval process for people ages 65 and older and younger people with health problems that put them at high risk for serious complications from the virus.
    Rob Stein, NPR, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • However, other traits like emotional acceptance or being highly goal-focused sometimes led to less supportive dynamics, suggesting that what’s adaptive for an individual may not always strengthen the relationship.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
  • There were thanks for Lineker’s contributions from the BBC’s director general Tim Davie but also the acceptance that there could be no reconciliation this time.
    Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • The proposal, which includes a condition that only one player per NFL team can participate, needs to receive 24 yes votes from the 32 teams during the spring ownership meetings in Minneapolis.
    Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 20 May 2025
  • If this was a test of whether the supporters were still behind the manager and his team, the noise that greeted his speech was an emphatic ‘yes’.
    Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 19 May 2025

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“Affirmative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/affirmative. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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