How to Use negation in a Sentence

negation

noun
  • But the concept of negation still tripped up the chatbots.
    — Max G. Levy, Quanta Magazine, 12 May 2023
  • But the negation of the right of Jews to a refuge in Israel is broader and goes back further.
    — WSJ, 6 Feb. 2022
  • For some fliers, the stillness is accompanied by a sense of negation of the self.
    — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
  • And Google’s Periscope can be fooled by simple typos and negations.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2017
  • King Lear is among the most complete statements of negation in English.
    — David Yezzi, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2018
  • For Levé, the point of writing is not just expression but also its negation.
    — David L. Ulin, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
  • But refusing to give in to a politics of negation, despite it all, this is punk rock.
    — J.j. Gould, The New Republic, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Trump's lawyers and Mueller's team are in the midst of negations over what topics an interview with the President could focus on.
    — Dan Merica, CNN, 22 Mar. 2018
  • This is poetry of the will written by the will to celebrate the will even in its perversity and negation.
    — The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
  • The negation as a prefix signals this part of our identity is never enough.
    — Ching Ching Tan, CNN, 18 Dec. 2021
  • Had Logan meant to underline Kendall’s name for emphasis or cross it out in an act of negation?
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Spore is a world unto itself, where destruction (negation) forms a new, round world.
    — Rebecca Horne, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2012
  • The Jim Crow Museum restated its negation of the claim in a 2020 article.
    — Emiliano Tahui Gómez, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Lawyers involved in the negations told the NYT that the settlement has gotten approval from the major parties involved.
    — Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, 12 Dec. 2019
  • If a property belongs to the set, its negation is not included.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The foundation of hunting was a discovery of logic: the working of negation.
    — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2020
  • Replacing Obama is not enough—Trump has made the negation of Obama’s legacy the foundation of his own.
    — Danielle Jackson, Longreads, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Replacing Obama is not enough—Trump has made the negation of Obama’s legacy the foundation of his own.
    — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Replacing Obama is not enough—Trump has made the negation of Obama’s legacy the foundation of his own.
    — Danielle Jackson, Longreads, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Replacing Obama is not enough—Trump has made the negation of Obama’s legacy the foundation of his own.
    — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2017
  • The denial of self, the pursuit of originality and the negation of impulses.
    — Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2021
  • In German, the word for the uncanny comes from a negation of the word for the homely, unheimlich from heimlich, a quick slip, on a prefix’s turn, from the cozy to the claustrophobic.
    — Gillian Osborne, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
  • Based on public records, the schools are in negations to cancel the 2025 meeting at Memorial Stadium.
    — Alexis Cubit, The Courier-Journal, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The proof of this outcome spanned decades and, naturally, split into two major parts: the proof that CH is consistent, and the proof that the negation of CH is consistent.
    — Dave Linkletter, Popular Mechanics, 28 Jan. 2022
  • But the simple idea of not ever drinking again seemed impossible, a grim negation of all convivial life.
    — Maggie Nelson, Harper's Magazine, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Here the ideal self is everything the wife is not, all the qualities summoned, via negation, by her brutal dismissal.
    — Merve Emre, The New York Review of Books, 6 Apr. 2022
  • His focus is black history itself, its twists, its turns, its triumphs and self-negations.
    — Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Archetypes are the refined cousins of stereotypes, the problem of stereotypes being their negation of complexity.
    — Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 25 Jan. 2024
  • But as the story rushes to a close, her narrator lands on something else entirely: negation.
    — Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2022
  • And so there’s already talk about how Democrats will apparently need to provide as many as 100 votes to participate in the great negation of their own accomplishments.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2023

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