negated

past tense of negate
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as in disbelieved
to think not to be true or real you simply can't negate your feelings for someone, even if they don't feel the same way about you

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Recent Examples of negated Loftin also couldn’t get a safety squeeze down in the seventh, although Jensen’s RBI single negated that mistake. Kansas City Star, 27 June 2026 Mercedes looks to have negated Ferrari’s starting advantage; in Canada, Monaco, and now Spain, its cars were plenty quick when the lights went out. Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 15 June 2026 Horkheimer, amid the wreckage of world war, lost faith in progress; his dialectic negated one construct after another. Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026 Balogun appeared to double the lead coming out of the hydration break midway through the opening half, but the goal was negated by an offside call. Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2026 Twenty minutes after McKennie’s goal, the US appeared to score again, but it was negated when Balogun was called offside. Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 13 June 2026 Can its political objectives be worth celebrating even as they’re negated by basic storytelling failures? Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 23 May 2026 Arsenic also negated the need to tan skins of mammals and other animals. Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 18 May 2026 Lukáš Dostál negated 24 Edmonton bids. Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 27 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for negated
Verb
  • Graf denied a defense request to force Robinson's partner to travel from Texas to testify in person.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 6 July 2026
  • Historically, the Catholic Church had denied religious funerals inside its houses of worship as well as traditional burials for those who died in this way.
    Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
Verb
  • In 2014, Pope Francis abolished the future use of the monsignor title — which denotes a specific honor — for most priests.
    Vivian Wilson, Twin Cities, 8 July 2026
  • Beijing eventually increased the limit to two children in 2015, then abolished the policy entirely in 2021.
    Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 7 July 2026
Verb
  • Epstein’s young victims were also threatened and followed; they were grilled by his lawyers and disbelieved by prosecutors, who at times treated them like prostitutes, instead of victims.
    Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 18 Dec. 2025
  • And a woman can behave perfectly and still be disbelieved.
    Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • North Crowley head coach DeMarcus Harris refuted the claim, saying there was no distinct evidence the move was made for athletic reasons, and supported Parks’ claim that Meredith had friends in the North Crowley community.
    Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 July 2026
  • Wainger also refuted the assertion that Pennel had expected to be arrested.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2026
Verb
  • Justices found Yoon violated Cabinet members’ deliberation rights, falsified and destroyed the martial law proclamation, and used security forces to obstruct his arrest before lawmakers swiftly repealed the decree.
    Kim Tong-Hyung, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
  • However, the City Council at the time repealed the measure and called it unworkable.
    Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 7 July 2026
Verb
  • The Senate, the upper house where conservatives hold a majority, rejected the bill.
    ABC News, ABC News, 15 July 2026
  • Born in 1946 amid the bombing of Frankfurt, Ruppert instead developed a psychosexual cosmology that rejected neat distinctions between prey and predator.
    Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 15 July 2026
Verb
  • Broiling conditions have severely tested the continent’s infrastructure, with some trains delayed or cancelled as extreme temperatures risk warping the metal tracks.
    Anna Cooban, CNN Money, 10 July 2026
  • During his years in exile, Osip Mandelstam was denied the right to work for any publication or publishing house; translation jobs were cancelled, his writing went unpublished.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
Verb
  • Prior to the Balogun gift, the only previous time a World Cup red card was nullified during the tournament was in 1962 when FIFA overturned the suspension of Brazil star Garrincha.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 7 July 2026
  • The Oregon lawsuit claims that, because BLM’s management plans are nullified, then any actions the agency might take that descends from the plan, including timber sales, are also invalid.
    Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 25 June 2026

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