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to contradict, offset, or render meaningless- Her apology is welcome, but does not negate her inexperience.
- The contract was negated by bankruptcy.
- Developing country growth will negate reduced carbon emissions in the developed world.
- The increased government spending was negated by decreased private spending.
- It negates the efforts of every scientist, statesman, moralist, reformer, doctor, and philosopher that ever gave his life to humanity's service.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
- The shark was utterly frozen in place, perhaps negating the tank's occupants' ability to sense him.Dave Eggers -- The Circle
- I want them to absorb their negations.Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
- "Where is the original?" asked Madame de Bellegarde, in a voice which was really a consummate negation of impatience.Henry James -- The American
- Including the words that had negated all the rest.Stephenie Meyer -- New Moon
- It was not a solitude of atrophy, of negation, but of perpetual flowering.Willa Cather -- Death Comes for the Archbishop
- The other guys in the band don't feel the same way, but singing for sex negates the art.Ellen Hopkins -- Glass
- The clear wrap of windows and the glossy acrylic table didn't negate the fact that Simpson was in deep trouble.J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death
- With a feeling of decisive, final negation that was almost like panic within me, I wanted to hear no more about Auschwitz, not another word.William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
- However, your success does not negate the reality of your disobedience.Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr
- The negation of the Eleatic philosophy was Heracli-tus, who said that everything flows.Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
- Napoleon silently shook his head in negation.Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
- It is mere cowardice to seek safety in negations.George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss
- That was encrusted with parental associations... Negation.Alfred Bester -- The Demolished Man
- It is negation canonized as the one positive virtue.Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
- But in our day he goes straight for the literature of negation, very quickly assimilates all the extracts of the science of negation, and he's ready.Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
(editor's note: 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.)
(editor's note: 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.)
(editor's note: 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.)
(editor's note: 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.)
(editor's note: 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.)
(editor's note: 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.)
(editor's note: 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.)
(editor's note: 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.)
(editor's note: 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.)
(editor's note: 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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