Sample Sentences for
negate
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    The contract was negated by bankruptcy.
    negated = rendered meaningless
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    As soon as he left, he somehow trained his mind to instantly negate any thoughts of the place.†  (source)
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    War doesn't negate decency.†  (source)
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    The negation of the Eleatic philosophy was Heracli-tus, who said that everything flows.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    I propose to negate this attack by so ordering our lives that there'll be no chinks for such barbs to enter.†  (source)
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    But a small sign soon negated his doubt.†  (source)
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    And by those negations, considered along with the affirmative fact of his prodigious bulk and power, you can best form to yourself the truest, though not the most exhilarating conception of what the most exalted potency is.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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    She made a negating gesture, wiping out the rest of that sentence.†  (source)
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    The other guys in the band don't feel the same way, but singing for sex negates the art.†  (source)
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    I noted that her first name as shortened differs from the English causation-inquiry word by only an aspiration and that her last name has the same sound as the general negator.†  (source)
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    I whispered something, a swift irrational negation.†  (source)
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    "Dex," as it is known, can temporarily negate the deleterious effects of altitude; each member of Fischer's team carried repared syringe of the drug in a plastic toothbrush case inside a prep his or her down suit, where it wouldn't freeze, for emergencies.†  (source)
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    Any exotic qualities which might have come from Sol Weintraub's Jewish legacy were instantly negated by his BW accent, his Crawford Squire Shop wardrobe, and the fact that he had come to the party with a copy of Detresque's Solitudes in Variance absentmindedly tucked under his arm.†  (source)
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