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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
  • Holocaust denial has started cropping up on major podcasts including Tucker Carlson’s and Joe Rogan’s.
    Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 1 May 2025
  • That worries both Da Rien and Johnston, who fear the designation could be used to justify deportations of Haitians or visa denials.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • Charlotte Uprising describes itself as a police and prison abolition organization.
    Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 30 Apr. 2025
  • The administration has argued that the new trade policy will eventually allow for the abolition of the federal income tax, but economists and market analysts remain skeptical.
    Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Account hopes to combat misogynistic online content Creators like Andrew Tate provide a pipeline for men seeking advice about romantic rejection, physical self-esteem and economic insecurity to fall into radicalism and misogyny.
    Rachel Hale, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Cronenberg’s rejection of the notion was just one of the first surprising musings from a discussion with Variety about his approach to art, including his consideration of the audience, embrace of technology and rejection of genre.
    William Earl, Variety, 26 Apr. 2025

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“Negation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/negation. Accessed 5 May. 2025.

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