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Recent Examples of negation Maduro claimed victory, and his third consecutive term, despite the Democratic Unitary Platform’s (PUD) outright negation of the results. Felipe Cardenas, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025 Twenty years after the film’s release, America not only accepts cancelling the political rule book, but Rock himself takes part in that negation. Armond White, National Review, 23 Oct. 2024 Worse still, if the negation of the axiom of choice were true, there wouldn’t just be a few (very contrived) examples of sets that can’t be measured—the whole theory of measurement would collapse! Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2024 Practical and technical negations aside, there is also a political dimension to this that is likely to complicate negations. Luke McGee, CNN, 25 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for negation
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Noun
  • But the station’s website posted a story on Levine’s All-Star Game report that had no byline and no mention of the Cubs’ denial.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 25 May 2025
  • Olson said that the school’s denial did not comply with the law.
    Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • While the mercurial Greeley and other radicals veered between strident demands for abolition, protests of the crackdown on civil liberties, and panicked calls for peace talks, Raymond stayed the course (or, at least, kept his wobbles private).
    Matthew Karp, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Following the faith’s core beliefs in nonviolence and justice, Quakers have demonstrated for the abolition of slavery, in favor of the suffrage movement, against both World Wars, and the U.S. roles in the wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan, said Ross Brubeck, 38, one of the Quaker march organizers.
    Luis Andres Henao, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2025
Noun
  • There’s no palm rejection when using the stylus, so my hand made unintended markings in my notes.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 22 May 2025
  • One key driver of this was the constant exposure to judgment and perceived rejection.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025

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“Negation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/negation. Accessed 31 May. 2025.

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