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positive as in: I'm absolutely positive!
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I'm positive I've seen her before.
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- I'm positive our team will win on Friday.
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But when she told them she wasn't exactly sure whether Luke had been born in May or June, that set the voices positively buzzing.
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When he drank, he was quite positive that he was swallowing them.
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Absolutely, positively, I am live on every screen in Panem.
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positively = with certainty
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"You sure you're not up for the Halloween Parade?"
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"Are you sure?"
"Positive," said Hermione, shifting Scabbers the rat so that she could sit down on the end of Ron's four-poster. (source)
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She positively glowed as she told me about the hot meals and the hot showers and all the friends she'd made.
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"I'm absolutely positive," he assured Gallien, "I won't run into anything I can't deal with on my own."
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Guitierrez himself would write the preliminary report, but the remains would have to be sent back to the United States for final positive identification, of course.
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I wasn't positive that Sergeant Bickle's son was a lunatic, and I wasn't convinced he would lead us to Phoebe's mother, but enough of Phoebe's tales had been transplanted into my brain so that I was caught up in the plan.
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- In Montana, the only animals that dug holes like that were gophers and badgers, and Roy was positive there weren't many of those in Florida. (source)
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Our sources indicate that while Pickett has not been positively identified, authorities believe the body found in an offshoot of the Pogue's Run tunnel is indeed that of billionaire construction magnate Russell Davis Pickett, Sr.
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And when Nina inevitably asked what he thought of the day's debate, he was going to reply that it was positively Shakespearean.
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positively = absolutely (used for emphasis)
- But I began to put on weight, and I was positively chubby by the time I started the fifth grade. (source)
- Ten thousand trumpets and twenty thousand drums could not have made as much noise as that bolt of lightning; it was positively deafening. (source)
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At the jail, Hooks positively identified Walter's truck as the one he'd seen at the cleaners nearly six months earlier.
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Yes, I'm positive I have seen these!
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- I've never been there, but I've seen specials on the Travel Channel, and I'm almost positive it's in Arizona. (source)
- He was almost positive the smell would bring back some sort of pleasant memory, but nothing came. (source)
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They clamber down into a cramped, moist space that positively reeks of the sea.
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positively = absolutely (used for emphasis)
- Already jam-packed with computers and equipment, the cramped space had turned positively claustrophobic with the many spectators now squeezing into it. (source)
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We'll be staying until we're positive that he's safe.
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I looked positively plain.
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First you write down all the positive whole numbers in the world.
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- And I'm positive that deep down she likes me, too, even though she ACTS like she hates me. (source)
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In the reflection of the mirror, she watched the girl who looked just like her take a tube of lipstick-'Positively Hot!' the label read-and apply it.
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We were positive that Stephano killed him!
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- You are positive that he took full advantage of you? (source)
- I am positive that Aibileen would have better luck convincing someone than I would. (source)
- I've never been more positive of anything in my life. (source)
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I took positive control over my life.
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But she was absolutely positive she understood them, and it scared the jujubes out of her.
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He had pushed the thought down and out of sight, where only some positive reminder like this could bring it to the surface.
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positive = certain (strong)
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"It is safe, sir," said William positively.
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- Eventually, of course, after their Galaxy had been decimated over a few thousand years, it was realized that the whole thing had been a ghastly mistake, and so the two opposing battle fleets settled their few remaining differences in order to launch a joint attack on our own Galaxy—now positively identified as the source of the offending remark. (source)
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At the last moment, when disaster seemed positive, he pulled his hands from his pockets and broke his fall by grasping the golden pole.
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She wouldn't let me peek while she was getting ready, but when she finally emerged from the bathroom, she was positively glamorous.
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If anyone cared to make the connection, Welty's ring was proof positive that I'd been in the gallery with the painting.
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positive = certain
- For example, one family living on our square claimed they saw all four of us riding by on our bikes early in the morning, and another woman was absolutely positive we'd been loaded into some kind of military vehicle in the middle of the night. (source)
- They never promise anything, especially a visit or reunion, until they are positive they can deliver. (source)
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"You sure?"
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- Only when he was positive that Jack would say nothing of the trifling matter to the queen or the Lord of Diamonds, only when he heard the boy greedily munching on a tarty tart, did he set out after Alyss and Dodge. (source)
- "I'm positive," asserted Mack adamantly. (source)
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I can tell you with absolute positivity that I am soon going to be Mrs. Daniel Attaché-to-the-Ambassador DuPrée.
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positivity = certainty
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And he suspected — no, was nearly positive — that several of the guests had seen or heard things, too.
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- Three years later, when Grandma discovered I would be one of the first blacks to attend Central High School, she said the nightmare that had surrounded my birth was proof positive that destiny had assigned me a special task. (source)
- When radium was first discovered in the late 1800s, headlines nationwide hailed it as "a substitute for gas, electricity, and a positive cure for every disease." (source)
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And those ROE are very specific: we may not open fire until we are fired upon or have positively identified our enemy and have proof of his intentions.
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He was positive that I'd had an abortion and just made up the whole senior project as a way to cover it up.
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- Salander was absolutely positive that she had left no traces and that her trespassing could not be discovered by anyone unless a top security consultant sat down and scanned the hard drive at the same time as she was accessing the computer. (source)
- Still I was positive it had been a shot and I bolted forward. (source)
- I was sure—no I was positive—that wasn't how you do it. (source)
- For example, plenty of boys in this database have blue eyes and dark hair like Ky, but I am positive that not one of them looks as he does. (source)
- He could not be certain what he would do, but of one thing he was positive: he did not want the water distilled out of Jamis' flesh. (source)
- "Are you positive?" she asked. (source)
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He had heard that the place had experts who could identify monkey diseases, and he wanted to get a positive identification of the sickness.
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positive = with certainty
- Remember the morning you waited for him in the lobby until you were absolutely, positively going to be late, and then you rang his doorbell, and it turned out he'd gone to school without you? (source)
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I was positive that Timothy was back on north beach cutting on that piece of wood but something told me not to go down there.
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Oh, I don't really miss it-the frenzy, and never a cab, and always worrying how one looks. Positively not.
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Absolutely, positively, one hundred and ten percent smashed.
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- Ever since we read The Fall of the House of Usher, we had made a pact that neither of us would allow the other to be buried without making "absolutely, positively sure" (his favorite phrase) that the person was dead. (source)
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So many monstrous events were occurring that he was no longer positive which events were monstrous and which were really taking place.
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I've been well enough to go back to Mom's for ages, but Dr. Marx won't release me until he's "absolutely, positively, for sure certain" that my good bugs are in charge of my bad bugs.
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positively = with certainty
- The legend of Bilbo's gold excited both curiosity and hope; for legendary gold (mysteriously obtained, if not positively ill-gotten), is, as every one knows, any one's for the finding — unless the search is interrupted. (source)
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"You sure?" she asked.
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I was even positive I would be.
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Can you make such a statement with positive assurance, Miss Taggart?
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It was odd, I felt, how many people seemed to have positive, if conflicting, information upon God's views.
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But he's been positively identified, so we know it's him.
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positively = with certainty
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You're absolutely positive?†
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After the second gutter ball, he looked positively panicked.†
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"Truly, I'm almost positive," I said, though I felt less sure now under Rideau's steely gaze.†
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You're a positively disarming young man.†
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I need to know how long the regulators had been watching 37 Brooks, and I have to make absolutely positive that Alex is safe.†
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positive = certain
- And I'm sure she was positive it was mine.† (source)
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Don't shoot at anything unless it's positively identified and unquestionably threatening.†
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He looked positively rabid.†
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- Told me you looked positively wretched.† (source)
- The longer I knelt there, the more out of sorts I felt, so that I was positively relieved when the General finally arrived—even though he did nothing more, after I had greeted him, than turn on the radio and sit drinking a beer.† (source)
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Then, so quickly I couldn't be positive that he really did, he put his finger to his mouth to taste it.†
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- According to Kierkegaard, angst is almost positive.† (source)
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It was positively from Red October.†
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Despite the fact that John and I believed what we told Beth's parents, we couldn't be positive that Beth would wake up or that she wouldn't, finally, just slip away.†
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I think I was positively creative in terms of my mental cruelty.†
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I'm not positive.†
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- I didn't outright suspect Patch of spying on me, but I couldn't ignore the coincidence that I was almost positive I'd seen someone looking in my window just hours after I'd met him.† (source)
- Joe would also, as a hall monitor, have a master key to the rooms, which fit because Dan was positive he had locked the door that morning.† (source)
- And I was embarrassed because I was positive he could feel my heart hammering in my chest.† (source)
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An AC-130 gunship thousands of feet overhead engaged the enemy that could be positively identified by their weapon fire.†
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And I'm positive I looked awful.†
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Ambiades looked positively green.†
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- They sounded positively giddy, in fact.† (source)
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Then he sheathed his sword, picked up the Sicilian's trail, and raced into the night.... "HE HAS BEATEN Inigo!" the Turk said, not quite sure he wanted to believe it, but positive that the news was sad; he liked Inigo.†
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On the other hand, if Maryse looked angry, the Inquisitor looked positively demented.†
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positively = absolutely (used for emphasis)
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To make a positive identification.†
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That's proof positive I'm not dead!†
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positive = certain
- After two hours, the woman said she was absolutely one-hundred-percent positive there was no Alma Mereminski who died in New York City after 1948.† (source)
- Max listened carefully, positive that he had heard the word "Topkapi" before.† (source)
- I'm positive it's there as a guide to size.† (source)
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positive as in: had a positive effect
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Lower interest rates positively affected home sales.
positively = in a good or beneficial manner
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Lower gasoline prices have positively affected movie fast food sales.
positively = in a good way
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We don't have a solution yet, but our recent experiment was a positive step in the right direction.
positive = good or beneficial
- Wage growth had a positive impact on the stock market.
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I'm making a list of the positives and negatives of switching jobs
positives = good things or characteristics
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The authorities' problem with the book was obvious. The protagonist was a Jew, and he was presented in a positive light.
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Fussing over children who cry only encourages them, she told us. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.
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positive = beneficial (providing a benefit)
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"Personally I see nothing positive at all about Chris McCandless's lifestyle or wilderness doctrine," scolded another correspondent.
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positive = good or beneficial
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Best of all, women found the flyboy uniform irresistible. While Louie was out walking one afternoon, a convertible fringed in blondes pulled up, and he was scooped into the car and sped off to a party. When it happened a second time, he sensed a positive trend.
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It's always a positive force.
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- Curly finally came up with something positive to contribute. (source)
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Several new treatments are available that we hope to use with positive effect, in particular the "electro-shock therapy," for which we will have the equipment soon.
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A change in personal circumstances, even a positive one, can trigger anxiety.
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positive = good or beneficial
- Reams of social science attest to the positive effect of a loving and stable home. (source)
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The only positive news Goldie has to offer is her own.
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Lotte had assured her that Johann would always be the love of her life, but cheerful Antoon knew how to see something positive in every day, and had given her life new meaning.
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positive = good or beneficial
- I assigned this tension to the new environment of the island; any change, even positive, will make an animal tense. (source)
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This was a very positive development.
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- Interpol said Vernet's name appeared in the newspapers from time to time, but always in a positive light. (source)
- Thomas waited, hoping that Newt or Alby would have a positive reaction to the news, maybe even have further information to shed light on the mystery. (source)
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Professor Lupin continued, "The Patronus is a kind of positive force, a projection of the very things that the dementor feeds upon — hope, happiness, the desire to survive — but it cannot feel despair, as real humans can, so the dementors can't hurt it."
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positive = good or beneficial
- It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it. (source)
- Even jail can be positive if you go in with a good heart. (source)
- If you visit a coworker's page and write something on the wall, that's a positive thing. (source)
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And if there's any positive to the jabberjay attack, it's that it let us know where we are on the clock face again.
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positive = good
- Again her hair was down, and I took this as a positive sign. (source)
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My blessings also mean having the opportunity to meet so many people who had a positive impact on my life.
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Everything he'd said after the Inglemoor game was positive, but I knew what was happening. Dave Kane was playing better and better every week. His star was shining brighter and mine was fading.
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I do all that I can to help young people to believe in themselves and strive toward a positive future.
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positive = good or beneficial
- With some positive action before them, a little of the tension died. (source)
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The concept of unity, in which positive and negative are attributes of the same force, in which good and evil are relative, ever-changing, and always joined to the same phenomenon—such a concept is still reserved to the physical sciences and to the few who have grasped the history of ideas.
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- Many adults seemed to interpret this numbness as a positive sign; I remember particularly Mr. Beeman (an overly clipped Brit in a dumb tweed motoring cap, whom despite his solicitude I had come to hate, irrationally, as an agent of my mother's death) complimenting me on my maturity and informing me that I seemed to be "coping awfully well." (source)
- Others cast the train in a more positive light. (source)
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I remember the social worker telling my grandparents and Aunt Diane that this was a positive step.
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It was what had brought them to the war in the first place, nothing positive, no dreams of glory or honor, just to avoid the blush of dishonor.
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- To a background of gasps and exclamations of relief, amazement, joy, and every other positive emotion that Alice's miraculous return could give rise to, she told of how she had escaped from her captors (a gang of Scottish stevedores looking to blackmail the royal family, she claimed), a feat which she herself pooh-poohed as nothing very astonishing. (source)
- That is something the Amity would do: put me in time-out, and then teach me to do cleansing breaths or think positive thoughts. (source)
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We recognized that there were things we could do that might help the outcome in positive ways…and we did them.
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He views Leah's bow and arrows as a positive development in our household after so many other discouraging ones, such as the death, for all practical purposes, of Ruth May.
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But there are also a lot of positives to military service.
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Because once they have enough to eat, and they go out there, there will be something else hopefully positive, not negative.
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I plan to go back to my high school for their special events, like the annual talent show and the Mr. Toppenish show, and to keep up with the teachers who have had such a positive impact on my life.
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You will describe in detail how positive I am and how well things are going for me.
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On a technical level, she was measuring the amount of positive and negative emotion, because one of Gottman's findings is that for a marriage to survive, the ratio of positive to negative emotion in a given encounter has to be at least five to one.
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- Along the way, they also have a positive influence on one another. (source)
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The measure of Count Fenring's friendship may be seen first in a positive thing: he allayed the Landsraad's suspicions after the Arrakis Affair.
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positive = good
- Mr. Turner has spoken of it, and not in positive terms. (source)
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People were scarcely real to them, in the sense of being warmly or positively (or even angrily) felt about… The three men under sentence of death had shallow emotions regarding their own fate and that of their victims.
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I chose to look upon this incident, even if small, as a positive sign.
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- The one positive development for Washington was that during his stay in Philadelphia he had convinced Joseph Reed to rejoin the army, to serve as the army's adjutant general—its administrative head—with the rank of colonel, in place of General Horatio Gates, who had been sent by Congress to see what he could do about Canada. (source)
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The characters suffer in the beginning and the middle, but not the end. There's positive resolution.
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positive = good or beneficial
- That's the positive effect of political correctness. (source)
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If Attolia returned from the dancing flushed from more than the exercise, no one took it as a positive sign.
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I BELIEVE I HAVE A PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY to make a positive impact on society.
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positive = good or beneficial
- At least they were doing something positive. (source)
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As far as I was concerned a firm grasp of the negative in the cause of survival had been quite enough to occupy me; I was only just beginning to perceive the vacancy left by the absent positive.
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positive = good to do
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"It's faith, and faith's a strong, positive thing."
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I take that as a positive sign.
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I also have done many things the right way and have been a positive influence on many people.
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His pulse was still rapid and weak, but his blood pressure was rising steadily, a positive development.
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Many Farm folk and children were gathered around the dentist, who was checking to find out if marijuana had any positive effect on teeth.
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positive = good or beneficial
- They could see that the navy was firing heavily—black smoke rose from the island in great billows—and this began to have a positive influence on the disposition of Third Platoon.† (source)
- It hasn't changed since she picked me up, so she might just be trying to think of something positive to say to me.† (source)
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One indisputably positive development had occurred during his absence, however.†
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positive = good
- I tried to wipe the worry off my face and focus on positive things, but I realized there weren't any.† (source)
- To both Hegel and Marx, work was a positive thing, andwas closely connected with the essence of mankind.† (source)
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Yes, surely I must have dreamt that Edward said anything positive about Heathcliff.†
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It's a positive sign.†
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positive = good
- Getting glasses was the first positive thing to start me on my climb upward from the bottom of the class.† (source)
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I need to change these feelings into something positive instead of negative.†
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As Lori, the court-ordered social worker she meets with biweekly always tells her to do, Molly decides to make a mental list of all the positive things about her situation.†
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Janice and Larry's steadfast faith has been an inspiration—they have channeled their grief into something positive.†
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positive = good or beneficial
- We thus regard the Pentecostal boom with some suspicion, but without doubt it also has a positive impact on the role of women.† (source)
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One positive thing that came from all of the craziness is that my family took Shelley to Colorado to see Sunny Acres, and my sister really liked it.†
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I would also to thank the many people who have had a positive impact on my life, especially my loving mother and my family.†
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positive = good or beneficial
- Unlike Parmenides, Beethoven apparently viewed weight as something positive.† (source)
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Ismael should look for positive things to emphasize.†
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positive = good
- But I've got to think about positive things, like what we're going to do tomorrow.† (source)
- I saw this as a positive thing, but when Henry Lavender called that afternoon my mother was at the supermarket and didn't call him back.† (source)
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She was one of the only people I knew who'd gotten anything positive out of her prison stay: new teeth.†
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positive = good or beneficial
- Mortenson marveled at the positive effects marriage had on his life.† (source)
- THE MEETINGS had a positive effect: I was told in the winter of 1988 that President Botha was planning to see me before the end of August.† (source)
- Now if I really want to do something positive, I can do it right here in this country.† (source)
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To some, these are positive developments.†
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Positive Effects of Size, Structure of Government†
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- If there was something ominous in the newscaster's tones, there was something torpid about our understanding of what was at stake; and if there was something culpable about such political ignorance in that time and place, there was something positive about the security I inhabited as a result of it.† (source)
- Something positive.† (source)
- And as soon as it was understood, black men could do something positive to counter it.† (source)
- Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master. (source)
- …in spite of all, we perceive the positive in every moment, and store it up as a reserve against the onslaught of nothingness. (source)
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I've failed at every positive thing I've tried.
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I have pointed out some of the negative wastes of competition, answered the other. I have hardly mentioned the positive economies of co-operation.
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He has one positive virtue.
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I left it there, with the water rippling round it, under the still stars, and giving it a wide berth pursued my way towards the yellow glow of the house; and presently, with a positive effect of relief, came the pitiful moaning of the puma, the sound that had originally driven me out to explore this mysterious island.
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positive = good or beneficial
- It's society that implants positives or negatives onto certain ideas.† (source)
- Number one was okay since it was negatives and positives and those aren't too bad.† (source)
- I would only concentrate on positives, and on preparing myself to lead my first public circle-casting and ritual.† (source)
- I concentrated on the positives.† (source)
- A deep breath brings several positives to mind.† (source)
- And less on the negatives and more on the positives, please?† (source)
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Responses to my plan were positive.
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We're getting a lot of positive feedback about the proposed changes.
positive = indicating approval or agreement
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But still not everyone in Pakistan was so positive. Though my father had tried to keep it from me, I knew some people were saying he had shot me, or that I wasn't shot at all and we had staged it so we could live overseas.
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positive = indicating approval
- "You liked it?" I said, getting my second taste—and how sweet it was—of a positive review. (source)
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To ensure that his message got through, he decided to speak positively about his captors.
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positively = in an approving manner (saying good things)
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It would be a generous one, more generous than his length of service warranted, because, let's be frank, his friends at AnooYoo wanted Jimmy to remember them in a positive manner, in his terrific new position.
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positive = indicating approval or agreement
- I always tried to be positive with her, although I'd learned that even compliments were a kind of insult to Lou Ann, causing her to wrinkle her face and advise me to make an appointment with an eye doctor. (source)
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He had never knowingly given her pain, but he now felt that she required more positive kindness; and with that view endeavoured, in the first place, to lessen her fears of them all, and gave her especially a great deal of good advice as to playing with Maria and Julia, and being as merry as possible.
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positive = indicating approval
- But some of the reaction in Pakistan was not so positive. (source)
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She must have had some sort of positive emotion about him though.
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positive = indicating approval or agreement
- Women have always had it hard in this country, Laila, but they're probably more free now, under the communists, and have more rights than they've ever had before, Babi said, always lowering his voice, aware of how intolerant Mammy was of even remotely positive talk of the communists. (source)
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- The media in Swat were under pressure to give positive coverage to the Taliban—some even respectfully called the Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan School Dada, when in reality he was destroying schools. (source)
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positive as in: a positive attitude
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With a positive attitude and some effort, I'm sure we can make this work.
positive = optimistic
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I appreciation your positive attitude.
positive = optimistic or agreeable
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But the positive thoughts would give way to negative thoughts, and the negative thoughts seemed to swoop into her mind the way a big flock of black crows takes over the landscape, sitting thick in the trees and on the fence rails and lawns, staring at you in ominous silence.
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positive = optimistic (focusing on good things)
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And the next thought was there as well, that they might never find him, but that was panic and he fought it down and tried to stay positive.
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- It also went to show the value of statesmanship and diplomacy as well as positive thinking and plain old hard-headed business sense. (source)
- "We've got to think positive thoughts." (source)
- My mom can be quiet and talk at the same time when she's being positive. (source)
- I asked Morrie how he managed to stay positive through that. (source)
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I needed to turn this around, make it positive.
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All I can tell you is that it's a combination of perfecting your skill and keeping a positive outlook.
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- On the plane back from Iceland, Aria had read in a Seventeen she found in her seat pocket that boys liked enthusiastic, positive girls. (source)
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I try to stay positive about it, but it's hard seeing the interactions and relationships the other students have at school that I'm not a part of.
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She tried to stay positive.
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She finally had a decent year in the Games with Peeta and me, and now it's all broken down into a mess that even she can't put a positive spin on.
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I had prepared myself for that, and even thought of several positive, uplifting aphorisms to cheer him up.
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But we managed, through patience, perseverance, and positive thinking, to grow from scrawny teenagers with doubtful futures to become medical professionals highly respected in our community.
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The paper explained that because he had confessed and had a positive attitude, he was pardoned.
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"My God," complained Arthur, "you're talking about a positive mental attitude and you haven't even had your planet demolished today."
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- Practice, practice, practice—six hours a day—my arms would ache from holding the flute up—and, well, I'm sure you've heard plenty of it too, that positive-thinking crap that it's so easy for teachers and physical therapists to dole out —'oh, you can do it!' we believe in you!' (source)
- Yes, better to think positive thoughts. (source)
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It pains him to see patients who are having a tough day healthwise and assume it's because they weren't positive enough.
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Here he is with no leg and a positive attitude.
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- Even when he was punched with punishing blows or was kicked to the floor, he kept a positive attitude. (source)
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But it was also an extremely positive letter, full of hope and encouraging all of us to do some small part for others.
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- When the mood was becoming morbid and there were too many people in tears, he would urge them to be positive. (source)
- He's not the most positive person anyway. (source)
- Seeing Miss Riley so positive and hopeful made me ashamed and disgusted with my symptoms. (source)
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Instead she prayed for the strength she needed to help her dad; she prayed for the ability to stay positive in his presence, instead of crying every time she saw him.
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Translated, that meant there was nothing a person can't do, and there should be nothing a human being didn't care about. It was the most positive encouragement I could have hoped for.
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- Why can't we take a more positive approach? Why can't we all pray for something good, like a tighter bomb pattern, for example? (source)
- She described Oscar's success in Santa Barbara, noting that his team triumphed due to their "ingenuity, positive outlook, and willingness to work hard." (source)
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Hard work and a positive attitude paid off.
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- The programme of the new Labour government: driving up standards in education; welfare reform; monetary and fiscal stability as the foundation of a modern economy; massive investment in our public services tied to the challenge of modernization; a huge programme of constitutional change; a new positive attitude to Europe -- it is a program of national renewal as ambitious as any undertaken in any western democracy in recent times. (source)
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Damn it, Lou Ann, you've been telling me till you were blue in the face to do something, take action, think positive, blah, blah, blah.
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That was when I began to realize that I had been tyrannized by the idea that everyone must always have a positive attitude.
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- Occasionally, in spite of the professional and positive attitude of the staff, outbursts do occur.† (source)
- When I see the judge I will try to convey a positive attitude, while at the same time monitoring my blood pressure and other vital signs.† (source)
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And then there was the willful positive thinking, the self-induced illusion that everything would turn out fine, when we had all kinds of evidence that it wouldn't.†
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Think positive, is what I always say.†
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- Given the circumstances, I doubted Amos, Carter, and Bast would let me go to London, but I decided to think positive.† (source)
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Cod-liver oil and a dose of positive thinking, eh?†
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- Because you know what, the power of positive thinking will overcome so many things.† (source)
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Yes, it's true that Alex and Barry and David and I did all the leading and fixed all the ropes, but she contributed to the effort in her own way by having a positive attitude, by raising money, and by dealing with the media.†
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Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I should cease looking back so, much, that I should adopt a more positive outlook and try to make the best of what remains of my day.†
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"Think positive," I mumbled around a mouthful of food, shaking my head with disbelief.†
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That was negative thinking—now I'm seriously into positive thinking.†
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I blurted, totally overwhelmed by the schedule, but trying to keep a positive attitude.†
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- Tragically, she had not been able to lose the weight, but she still had fun at the party, because she had managed to keep her positive attitude.† (source)
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My mother had on her Donna Reed face, which was a particularly sickly smile imbued with positive thinking, dredged up from I never understood where.†
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- You keep that positive outlook, Beaver.† (source)
- The Power of Positive Thinking.† (source)
- I had seen my mother with several self-help books recently, and I knew it was a struggle for her to practice these bits of positive thinking.† (source)
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"Think positive," he said.†
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Looking at the books, I saw little possibility of handing my students The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale.†
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My heart felt like lead, but we tried to find positive things to say.
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- Zoe started the meeting off on a positive note. (source)
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Cheer up! Look on the bright side! You've got to think positive!
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How you get to be so positive and sure about stuff all the time, man?
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You especially, Sonny, when advertisers who seemed positive pulled out without warning.
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I was in no mood to hear one of her lectures about the power of positive thinking.
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Brian thought of him now, wondered how to stay positive and stay on top of this.
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- Taya tried to sound positive and downplay the problems. (source)
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I can get used to these daily positive affirmations.
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How can anyone maintain a positive mental attitude if you're saying things like that?
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It has not always been easy to stay positive through my cancer treatment.
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Positive about what? That you've thought up yet another way to rip off a bunch of desperate people?
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He's just this phenomenal ball of positive energy; completely physical and gregarious.
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That's how Perpich had put it, stay positive and stay on top of things.
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The bearer of my daily doses of positive affirmation.
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Power of positive thinking and all that.
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Think positive.
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I do my best to sound positive about our future, but people are truly devastated when they learn I've lost the baby.
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I'd like to tell you that was part of my plan, but even I, with all my poetic skill, cannot put a positive spin on it.
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Think positive.
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I'm trying to stay positive.
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His positive attitude gave me hope that even if I couldn't speak my truth, the scales of justice were weighted on our side.
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"Let's think positive."
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Can't you be positive, just for once? All this negative stuff, this is no good, that's no good, nothing's ever good enough, according to you!
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At times she'd be happy for days on end, announcing that she had decided to think only positive thoughts, because if you think positive thoughts, then positive things will happen to you.
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Brian had once had an English teacher, a guy named Perpich, who was always talking about being positive, thinking positive, staying on top of things.
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positive = optimistic
- Though Jai wasn't thrilled with my bluntness and my know-it-all attitude, she said I was the most positive, upbeat person she'd ever met. (source)
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"What people want is perfection," said the man. "In themselves."
"But they need the steps to it to be pointed out," said the woman.
"In a simple order," said the man.
"With encouragement," said the woman. "And a positive attitude." (source)positive = optimistic or agreeable
- Prepare to be bombarded for the next six months with endless annoying texts of nothing but positive affirmations about Sky. (source)
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I watched Dr. Wolff use semantics to phrase whatever he could in a positive light. When we asked, “How long before I die?” he answered, “You probably have three to six months of good health.”
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Such positive slogans.
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And Dr. Reiss, the counselor Jai and I see, has helped me find strategies to avoid losing myself in the stress of my periodic cancer scans, so I'm able to focus on my family with an open heart, a positive outlook and almost of all my attention.
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Think positive, he told himself.
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- I'm trying to think positive here. (source)
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From the self-help bookshelves to the Complaint-Free World movement, the power of positive thinking is touted now more than ever as the way to be happy, healthy, wealthy, and wise.
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Robbie always had a cheerful grin and a positive attitude.†
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Think positive, girl, or the world ends.†
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If he continued to show the same positive attitude, he could possibly survive as news editor.†
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positive = optimistic or agreeable
- Another class had been titled "Positive Attitude" and was taught by the former warden's secretary.† (source)
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You have progressed from a state of "wanting to die" to the much more positive outlook of "learning to live."†
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We hope you had a safe and restful holiday and have come back ready with a positive attitude to successfully handle the academic tasks before you.†
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positive = optimistic or agreeable
- It will always be difficult to deal with, Andy, but taking one day at a time, with a positive attitude, is the only way to do it.† (source)
- I will have a positive attitude, take care of myself, I'll feed myself enzymes, and friendly bacteria.† (source)
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Try to think positive.†
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Positive attitude, right?†
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positive = optimistic or agreeable
- Combating the Tyranny of the Positive Attitude BARBARA HELD MANY AMERICANS INSIST THAT EVERYONE HAVE a positive attitude, even when the going gets rough.† (source)
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The pregnancy test was positive.
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- The test for bacterial infection came back positive.
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We tested for lead in the drinking water. The results came back positive.
positive = it found a substance to be present
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You're positive for strep and mono.
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I worried that something dramatic had been found, until the doctor said, "You tested positive for Valley Fever."
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positive = indicating that a condition was found
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They had run toxicity profiles as well, and they had found only one positive match: the blood was mildly reactive to the venom of the Indian king cobra.
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I caught it just a few weeks ago, tested positive at the quarantine checkpoint—government's trying their damnedest to keep the sick and the well separate.
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positive = indicating that a condition was found
- I took a pregnancy test today. It was positive. (source)
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Out of the eighteen, one was positive for melanoma.
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Within weeks of Henrietta's death, Sonny, Deborah, and baby Joe—all between one and four years old—tested positive for TB.
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positive = indicating that a condition was found
- For example, a patient with a normal ECG who was positive on all three urgent risk factors would go to the intermediate unit; a patient whose ECG showed acute ischemia (that is, the heart muscle wasn't getting enough blood) but who had either one or no risk factors would be considered low-risk and go to the short-stay unit; someone with an ECG positive for ischemia and two or three risk factors would be sent directly to the cardiac care unit—and so on. (source)
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- It said that his stool sample had tested positive for Escherichia coli 0157:H7, a virulent and potentially lethal foodborne pathogen. (source)
- All four men eventually tested positive for Ebola Reston virus. (source)
- On an island of 11 million, only 2,669 had tested positive as of 2000. (source)
- I've tested positive for the Raison Strain. (source)
- If the bat tested positive for rabies, then John Luke would have to go through about five rounds of shots. (source)
- Dr. Burton went on to say that it was he who conducted the study of gunshot-residue tests on suicides and found that fewer than 50 percent tested positive.† (source)
- The following day, after Janice and Larry found out that their son had tested positive for cocaine, marijuana, and amphetamines, Adam was already gone again.† (source)
- Sunitha arranged for Abbas to be tested for HIV; she tested positive, so Sunitha is trying to find her an HIV-positive man to marry.† (source)
- One month prior to current visit, patient tested positive for gonorrhea. (source)
- "Of course I tested positive," I said to the doctor. (source)
- After three positive pregnancy tests, after her period was three weeks late-she was miscarrying. (source)
- Besides, I've been tested positive for the virus he predicted from these dreams of his. (source)
- So the water tested positive for something that looked like alcohol, but only in certain pipes. (source)
- Many of their cell lines tested positive, including the skin cells George Hyatt had transplanted onto a soldier's arm years earlier. (source)
- The sample didn't just test positive; it showed that Henrietta had been infected with multiple copies of HPV-18, which turned out to be one of the most virulent strains of the virus. (source)
- Before beginning his talk, Hayflick stood at the podium and announced that, since WISH cells supposedly tested positive for a genetic marker found only in black people, he'd called his wife during the break to ask if he was, in fact, his daughter's father. (source)
- HeLa cells in his lab tested positive for the HPV-18 strain, but zur Hausen requested a sample of Henrietta's original biopsy from Hopkins, so he could be sure her cells hadn't been contaminated with the virus in culture. (source)
- One night, when I was on duty, the inmates got intoxicated, and sure enough the pipes tested positive for alcohol residue one day, although the water source tested perfectly normal. (source)
- The press release failed to mention that some ground beef from the same lot had indeed been tested — and had tested positive for E. coli 0157:H7. (source)
- None of the local people or the cattle tested positive for Marburg antibodies—if they had tested positive, it would have shown that they had been exposed to Marburg.† (source)
- Neth told him that she had worked in Poipet and was friends with an American journalist, but she balked at acknowledging that she had been a prostitute—or that she had tested positive for HIV.† (source)
- Thabang's mother, Gertrude Tobela, tested positive, apparently after getting the disease from her husband, and then infected her youngest child, Victor, during childbirth.† (source)
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positive as in: a positive number
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The company has a positive cash flow.
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We expect to achieve a positive cash flow next year.
positive = greater than zero
- It is a positive number.
- So I limited the reactor enough that we weren't getting positive heat. (source)
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Absolute value: the distance that a given number is from zero on a number line …. always a positive.
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And then, slowly, she watched the second, perpendicular line appear: a plus sign, a positive, a cross to bear.
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positive = greater than zero
- He sketched: Where x = time, and y = happiness, y = 0 beginning of relationship and breakup, y negative = breakup by m, and y positive = breakup by f: my relationship with K-19. (source)
- Positive numbers if the boy is more attracted to the girl; negative if vice versa. (source)
- Assuming negative numbers if the guy is more of a Dumpee; positive if the girl is. (source)
- A negative number if the boy is more of a Dumper; positive number if the girl is. (source)
- Which Colin arrived at by calculating the popularity difference between Person A and Person B on a scale of 1 to 1,000 (you can approximate) and then dividing by 75—positive numbers if the girl is more popular; negative if the guy is. (source)
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- He said positive liberty is self-mastery— the rule of the self, by the self.† (source)
- If someone came in here and gave you positive proof, would you do anything different?† (source)
- I'm positive he's going to say no, because I'm sure he's had as many leftover turkey sandwiches over at his house as we've been eating over here, but then he goes, "Sure!"† (source)
- I was especially mad at my mother, because she had negated the positive impression I had made previously by reciting the color wheel.† (source)
- An experiment that sent a powerful radio transmission at the sun could of course be interpreted in a thousand positive ways, but a single negative interpretation would be enough to bring political disaster on everyone.† (source)
- Five months later, in April 1932, Paul was able to record positive figures once again for Holsten Jewelers, and he used the capital to modernize the newly renamed Altona Market Jewelers.† (source)
- My mom always told me to think positive and smile—people notice and are attracted to that.† (source)
- The book also features a resource guide listing more than two hundred "Elevate Organizations" that young readers, their caregivers, and anyone who wants to help can use as a tool for creating positive change.† (source)
- Thank you for making a lot of the positive occurrences that are happening in my life possible.† (source)
- But you've got to look at the positive side.† (source)
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- Positive.† (source)
- He's very much involved with depicting his neighborhood and environment in a positive manner.† (source)
- He sticks the magnet to the screw's head and holds the screw's point to the positive terminal on the battery.† (source)
- Yeah, that Eugene, he was a positive dude even as an alcoholic who ended up getting shot in the face and killed.† (source)
- But the bare portion of the wire wasn't black or even singed, and the positive lead's insulation wasn't melted at all.† (source)
- After getting a few positive grunts, he said, "One ...two ...three!"† (source)
- A gun may give you a positive result on one firing and a negative result on another.† (source)
- Because, as you've said, one of every ten Caucasian males has blood of the B positive type, don't they?† (source)
- I have brought nothing positive into his life.† (source)
- Her zings were positive, and she recorded a brief announcement for her video feed, talking about the surprise in finding out this unfortunate role some distant part of her bloodline played in this grim historical moment.† (source)
- On the positive side, you have already completed enough days to get credit for this semester.† (source)
- There were certain positive words in their vocabulary—"European," among them; women who didn't shave their armpits or their legs were more "European" than American women, to their undoubted advantage.† (source)
- I tried to steer the conversation in a more positive direction.† (source)
- What makes this situation positive?† (source)
- Everything that went on in your life was thought to be due to some positive or negative power emanating from inside your head.† (source)
- That's not the reaction I was hoping for, but I guess it was positive.† (source)
- The distress of course was shared between them, but she felt it her duty to be positive and soothing.† (source)
- Ironically, had Mao died before launching the Cultural Revolution, he would surely be remembered today as a much more positive historical figure.† (source)
- Positive.† (source)
- The obsessive cleanliness of the room was the only positive sign of volition from Estha.† (source)
- Trying to put a positive spin on my impending demise.† (source)
- "Of course he will," I said, trying to sound positive.† (source)
- My parents tried yet again to put a positive spin on this new turn of events.† (source)
- A Patronus is a magical charm, a projection of all your most positive feelings, and takes the shape of the animal with whom you share the deepest affinity.† (source)
- "In here," he says, and though I can't be positive, I think he stops at the door to the master bedroom.† (source)
- Online, the video is already spiral-viraling away, and the reaction is surprisingly positive.† (source)
- Positive.† (source)
- At the same time, you'll also discover the transcendent account of a poet/artist who, with the help of a small, socially engaged core of community leaders and teachers, overcame his own deeply held pathologies to take on the great challenges of an oppressive and exploitative reality—and finding his own particular destiny with words, dedicated himself to making positive contributions in transforming that reality.† (source)
- The UV-positive microspores were almost hanging in the air by now-I could almost follow the trail of exhalations he had left.† (source)
- I reached in and pulled out our positive test strip.† (source)
- I'm pretty positive we'll find it no surprise that Texas isn't the only state inhabited by the male species.† (source)
- I tell myself, Dede, concentrate on the positive!† (source)
- However, my positive opinion of his looks was damaged by the first words out of his mouth.† (source)
- We would normally see his love of books as something that is affirming of values, improving, and educational—all of which we know as positive virtues.† (source)
- It's better than it was," I tell her as we approach Lamp, trying feebly to put a positive spin on a catastrophe.† (source)
- I see I didn't make a very positive impression when last we met, citizen.† (source)
- As if anyone needed extra pressure, the New York Times warned: "the failure of the fair or anything short of a positive and pronounced success would be a discredit to the whole country, and not to Chicago alone."† (source)
- I once again have a positive mind, body, and spirit.† (source)
- There had been a crackle of electricity and a small odor of ozone when he slipped the positive cable onto its terminal.† (source)
- "Positive," Georgia confirmed.† (source)
- She was pretty positive he wouldn't be in favor of people going close to the mountain.† (source)
- I look back on my Little Rock integration experience as ultimately a positive force that shaped the course of my life.† (source)
- But in the meantime some folk swear by cod-liver oil and a positive mind.† (source)
- On the positive side, there were these soft curls.† (source)
- I held a page of the records close to my face to make out the small script, then began reading out loud, " 'This twenty-eight-year-old' ...something ...I can't read the handwriting ...'positive Rh.'† (source)
- I was watching the scene through the open door, enthralled with the colors of the counterpane and the positive riot of color in the old man's face.† (source)
- It clearly pained him to dwell on the negative qualities of their opponents; he was by nature a positive man.† (source)
- Petrov paused, telling himself to be more positive.† (source)
- My mother refused to leave the phone, positive Cass would call any minute and say it was all a joke, of course she was still going to Yale.† (source)
- We all sat around the kang and again I explained what my life was like in Beijing and I tried hard to mention onlythe positive elements of the experience.† (source)
- This time she was positive she had not dreamt it, but because of the weight of her unborn child it took her almost a minute to reach the corridor.† (source)
- Her scheme, worked out as we went along, turned out to be the second positive factor.† (source)
- The purpose of this group is to build empathy, positive leadership, and connection among the students and within the community at large.† (source)
- And what can we do to deliberately start and control positive epidemics of our own?† (source)
- It seemed to be relevant in lots of different circles: pregnancy websites, mom blogs, local news discussions, ethics websites, education forums....Most of the articles and comments were positive, with clever headlines and a general tone of amazement that anyone would want to do what I did.† (source)
- Positive.† (source)
- Positive?† (source)
- Coach Meyer's comments to us afterward were positive, but I was struggling with the loss.† (source)
- "positive," and "outlets" meant, Bella grinned and nodded: "Yes, yes, exactly!† (source)
- I cause pain out of necessity, but he ....I swear he takes a positive delight in it.† (source)
- I'm positive he'll have a good time.† (source)
- At the toll, he was feeling positive enough to actually get out of the van and search around under the basket for dropped coins.† (source)
- I crossed my arms, hoping to look stem and a little exasperated, but at the same time, I had to bite my lip to keep from showing a slightly more positive reaction.† (source)
- With a curt smile, she says, "We expect to have a positive experience with you.† (source)
- I'm heartened that Beck, Lou, and others are apparently able to look at the positive side of the experience-and envious.† (source)
- The PSFs don't have the manpower to launch a full hunt for us, but I'm positive they've put two and two together about what you are.† (source)
- They are positive events, full of the old 'can-do' spirit.† (source)
- Some folks' polarities are negative, some positive.† (source)
- By contrast, her bodily functions seek positive awakening.† (source)
- "Smile with a greeting and make a positive first impression," a Burger King training manual suggests.† (source)
- Returning to the pharmacy, she bought two more tests; both were positive.† (source)
- Yves always seemed, a moment before the act, tentative and tremulous; not like a girl—like a boy: and this strangely innocent waiting, this virile helplessness, always engendered in Eric a positive storm of tenderness.† (source)
- He had done his test twice, he said, and both times the samples were positive to the Mayinga strain of Ebola Zaire.† (source)
- Instead, it relentlessly tries to stay positive, preparing people to make their own decisions.† (source)
- I know as I climb into the SUV, crank the engine, that what's left of Kristina will have to battle the reemergent Bree, that despite my plan to come back and pick up where I left off, only more positive and energized to go forth, get my GED and a great job, find a nice little place, make my own way, the odds of things ever being quite right again are clearly, completely, not in my favor.† (source)
- Positive.† (source)
- Early that morning I had to do a simple breast lump excision, and if the biopsy was positive, then a mastectomy and auxiliary node dissection.† (source)
- There were gorges carved by water, and somewhere there were quarries, but I wasn't sure where to look for them cut into the mountainside, because I wasn't positive where I was myself—somewhere inland of the Seperchia was all I knew for certain.† (source)
- So as I get ready to go, I feel quite bouncy and positive.† (source)
- Just doing my time, and hoping to get out and get on with meeting the positive goals in my life.† (source)
- Fezzik was positive.† (source)
- There, you see," he said peevishly: "I'm even afraid to make a positive statement.† (source)
- It's Minister Borden, panting, in a gray plaid suit, with a thumbnail-sized "I am a Positive Thinker" pin on his right lapel.† (source)
- She had to concentrate on the positive side of things.† (source)
- When she finally gets the three she wants-gets them one at a time over a number of years, weaving them into her plan and her network-she's damn positive they hate enough to be capable.† (source)
- In other problems we need to know whether these quantities are negative or positive.† (source)
- The general also forbids in the most positive terms [Greene had written in his orders of July 28] the troops easing themselves in the ditches of the fortifications, a practice that is disgraceful to the last degree.† (source)
- One half of the opposition he called positive (light, fineness, warmth, being), the other negative.† (source)
- It contained a chapter comparing the two ways in which AIDS had been managed on the island of Cuba—the Cuban approach and the American quarantine of HIV-positive Haitian refugees, conducted in the early nineties on the Guantánamo naval base.† (source)
- There are even more correlations, positive and negative, that shore up the abortion-crime link.† (source)
- I was tempted to try it, but I think I'll stick to Aunt Thelma's kind of positive beliefs.† (source)
- "Besides," he adds, "I want to work withreal kids, not posh little geniuses...kids who actuallyneed positive male role models in their lives..."† (source)
- They have the same blood type—B positive.† (source)
- I was almost 100 percent positive she was going to say no. But instead a funny look came over her face and she said I suppose so, yes!† (source)
- Are you positive?† (source)
- No one else was showing her any positive attention.† (source)
- He didn't have to say a word "I'm afraid I can't be very positive, Lindsay," he said, meeting my eyes.† (source)
- Well, uh, I can't be positive.† (source)
- Not even the more positive reports, ones that criticized society with headlines such as SOCIETY FAILS or SHE NEVER GOT THE HELP SHE NEEDED, could dilute her standing as public enemy number one—a mass murderer who in one fit of insanity had executed three honourable citizens.† (source)
- Despite his positive demeanor, after an hour with the Geographica even Charles had to admit he was at a loggerheads with it.† (source)
- Instruct sounds like such a positive word, but he doubts whether Ray's wife, even now, would believe in that saying.† (source)
- I had reached some positive ground zero; the world was new and open to me.† (source)
- Uncle Jack, I think you've made a non sequitur but I'm not at all positive.† (source)
- Nothing positive.† (source)
- From now on, I'm thinking positive, and I'm giving you that favor you asked me to give you yesterday.† (source)
- Looking at her in that little black dress and those big boots I was positive she was the woman for me.† (source)
- They concluded that over the past quarter-century teachers have become more positive in their opinions about the structure of Black English, but that their attitudes depended heavily on the philosophy of the school, and on how many black students they had.† (source)
- I have to admit that I'm not totally positive about this decision yet—and I can't even say for sure that this is a real conviction from God (not like my vow to remain a virgin), but I do know that I'm seriously concerned as to whether dating is a very healthy thing for me to participate in, just now anyway.† (source)
- Positive numbers if the girl is more outgoing; negative if the guy is.]† (source)
- In Part One of formal scientific method, which is the statement of the problem, the main skill is in stating absolutely no more than you are positive you know.† (source)
- Are you positive?† (source)
- Are you positive?† (source)
- I only hope that my involvement will not in any way damage the chances of our African friends or cause detriment to a positive outcome for this case.† (source)
- Have you ever contracted tuberculosis or other mycobacterial disease, or had a positive skin test for tuberculosis?† (source)
- It was a rite that strengthened group identification and inculcated positive values.† (source)
- Now there was a positive statement, she thought with a frown.† (source)
- Now he has the chance to help them in a more positive way.† (source)
- "The press has treated us well, and our families in Monterrey deserve the positive news," Cesar told his ace pitcher.† (source)
- Seabiscuit will either be a positive starter tomorrow, or we will refuse his entry entirely.† (source)
- Or by being smashed, or subjected to solvents, or positive entropy through other means—I find the concept disturbing.† (source)
- She wasn't even positive it had been a dream.† (source)
- "You screened positive," he said.† (source)
- I had instantly accepted my fate and somehow was trying to formulate a plan to turn my negative setback into a positive outcome.† (source)
- Almost from the day the series first aired on Philadelphia's WCAU in March 1951, the response from the public was enormous and overwhelmingly positive.† (source)
- He also said that you might want to think about what happened on Sunday in a positive way.† (source)
- CRISTIAN ARCECA TRIED not to care about what others thought of him since it usually wasn't positive.† (source)
- "Okay, then," Miri says, trying her best to keep it upbeat, positive.† (source)
- Can't be positive, but if he keeps on to the northwest like this and then turns west, well, that'll bring him smack into Mandalay.† (source)
- I will concentrate on my positive and not my negative, e.g., I will think less about my nose and more about my quite attractive teeth.† (source)
- But it was working, and now he had brought in two rival tribes simultaneously with positive results.† (source)
- This was progress: positive progress.† (source)
- And it's almost a real smile, though I can't be positive, because I've never really seen him smile.† (source)
- We were cash flow positive after eighteen months.† (source)
- Positive and negative.† (source)
- He came home after two weeks cheerful and positive.† (source)
- I told Phil that it would be a chance for us to show America a family that loves each other and was, dare I say, positive in so many ways.† (source)
- No way this guy could make a positive ID.† (source)
- Are you positive you don't like him?† (source)
- I'm positive you could.† (source)
- Their success has been grounded in incredible increases in productivity, which is a positive way of saying that factories produce more with fewer workers.† (source)
- The most we can expect of men who cannot be reelected is the negative merit of doing no harm, instead of the positive merit of doing good.† (source)
- Cuts, scrapes, flu, colds, hypochondriacs, people with minor urinary tract infections they were positive were the first signs of syphilis.† (source)
- But the thousands of letters and scores of diaries I have read for the latter part of the war do not support the thesis of a decline in positive expressions of ideological and patriotic commitment among veterans who had enlisted in 1861 or 1862.† (source)
- Positive ones go on the wall, negative on the floor over there.† (source)
- In retrospect, she supposed her actions had made a positive impression.† (source)
- As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.† (source)
- With several days of rest and feeling more positive about urban America, I was ready to leave the neat suburb of Mountain Brook, just outside Birmingham, where I had been invited to spend some time in the home of Roger and Pat McGuire.† (source)
- I wanted to be positive The Ten was not mentioned.† (source)
- Joe is about 5 feet 10 inches in height, of a chestnut color, bald head, with a remarkable scar on one of his cheeks, not positive on which it is, but think it is on the left, under the eye, has intelligent countenance, active, and well-made.† (source)
- He says there'll be a positive reduction by the time you get to latitude fifty or sixty.† (source)
- Silence, positive and thorough, fell.† (source)
- How could he be positive about anything?† (source)
- Since reasoning with you has failed, I must now take positive action.† (source)
- I made a humming noise and gave him a vaguely positive look.† (source)
- DRUMMOND It's sad that we aren't all gifted with your positive knowledge of Right and Wrong, Mr. Brady.† (source)
- She knew he could never be positive how long he'd be away, and for a long time she'd seemed resigned to it—resigned even to his failing to phone for sometimes weeks at a time.† (source)
- At the worst, Stormgren did not see that any positive harm could be done.† (source)
- They could not he positive of what had happened, except that the area of destruction extended for eight miles from Orlando airport, encompassing College Park and Rollins College, and another explosion had centered on McCoy Air Force Base.† (source)
- Marxism is a positive science, a theory of reality, a philosophy of history.† (source)
- "Your cousin," she said in a positive voice, "cannot come over here and marry one of my Negroes."† (source)
- DAISY: [to MRS. BOEUF] Are you positive?† (source)
- That was Aunt Beck," said Kate's positive voice.† (source)
- James Blaine, when his tears were dry, was to write of the Sumner eulogy that "it was a mark of positive genius in a Southern representative to pronounce a fervid and discriminating eulogy upon Mr. Sumner, and skillfully interweave with it a defense of that which Mr. Sumner, like John Wesley, believed to be the sum of all villainies " Southerners to whom Charles Sumner symbolized the worst of the prewar Abolitionist movement and the postwar reconstruction felt betrayed.† (source)
- Reich is about to become a Galactic focal point...A crucial link between the positive past and the probable future.† (source)
- She was very happy: that was perhaps her only positive quality, for there was nothing else distinctive about her, though at twenty-five she was at her prettiest.† (source)
- Well, unless Mom told him, because I'm positive she does.† (source)
- The car went into a screaming slide and she shrieked aloud, suddenly positive of her own death.† (source)
- I'm positive my mouth flopped open like a moron.† (source)
- And I'll say yes when I'm positive he wants to marry me.† (source)
- Jason hesitated, as if it was hard for him to put a positive spin on that.† (source)
- And we're not one hundred percent positive.† (source)
- Piper tried to stay positive, but privately she had told Leo how worried she was.† (source)
- You might not be positive, but I feel it.† (source)
- If we could but be positive...be sure that, as she grows, she will be able to stay concealed from the human world—not endanger the safety of our obscurity ....† (source)
- I'm positive now.† (source)
- Stay positive.† (source)
- You can't be positive.† (source)
- Are you positive about that?† (source)
- He'd take a few days off regardless of the approaching season, and as he limped back to his house, he tried to put a positive spin on it.† (source)
- Are you positive?† (source)
- I'm positive we're on Mars.† (source)
- I was more positive than ever that this was what Alice would give me.† (source)
- You are cheerier, more positive, more polite, more generous, more inquisitive.† (source)
- The atmosphere was more positive now than before; it felt good to them to be in action.† (source)
- The man in the drugstore tells me the results are positive.† (source)
- And the rest of the world might also hold a more positive view of Americans.† (source)
- To more positive matters: the Clinic here is run along very clean and efficient lines, and is exploring various lines of treatment, including water therapy; and might act as a model for my own project, should it ever come to fruition.† (source)
- You're positive.† (source)
- You're positive she's won't turn up?† (source)
- John Marshall had said much the same thing, and so had John Quincy in some of his correspondence with his father, but as Adams was to write, the assurances of Gerry—"my own ambassador"—were "more positive, more explicit, and decisive."† (source)
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- They'd survived the siege of Leningrad, the modern St. Petersburg, and I found it fascinating how she could have lived through something so horrific yet be so positive and gentle with the world.† (source)
- Then one of them will ask me, "This was last winter, Miss Wilkes, how could you be so positive?"† (source)
- You mean, I should try to channel her enthusiasm into positive outlets?† (source)
- Thanks for being so positive in my life.† (source)
- I could live and work in here if I go positive for Ebola.† (source)
- "And I'm O positive—a universal donor," Naka whispered back.† (source)
- When did you suddenly become so positive?† (source)
- Had he done so, however, he would have been in the spirit of Parmenides and made heavy go to light, that is, negative to positive!† (source)
- It's about people who were so brave, and so positive, and treated so badly.† (source)
- By lunchtime, Vlad was ready to head home and spend the day in front of the television with a bag of potato chips and about five hundred bags of O positive, trying to defend the fate of the Earth against whatever evildoers were currently lurking inside his PlayStation.† (source)
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- It was also positive for blood.† (source)
- He also knew that anger rarely led to positive outcomes.† (source)
- And when this intellectual predisposition co-exists with the actualities of Ulster and Israel and Bosnia and Rwanda and a host of other wounded spots on the face of the earth, the inclination is not only not to credit human nature with much constructive potential but not to credit anything too positive in the work of art.† (source)
- There was no positive prohibition upon motoring at that time.† (source)
- Now that I know about that mind-reading gadget I understand why a psychiatrist on this end could be so positive it would never function again.† (source)
- And I proved the male human body-it has a too positive, too special shape, you know, not to be hurt-it could be finished up pretty fast.† (source)
- I'll just nuke some O positive, if you don't mind.† (source)
- What I'd really like is a nice mulled glass of O positive.† (source)
- Why don't we celebrate my new residency over a glass of O positive?† (source)
- "Yes," she said, and she sounded so sure it startled me: like she could be so positive while hardly knowing me at all.† (source)
- We might find this division into positive and negative poles childishly simple except for one difficulty: which one is positive, weight or lightness?† (source)
- There was something so positive about its disappearance that only the instinct of caution made them give it a moment to come up again; it didn't come up.† (source)
- Yes, no positive action.† (source)
- Louis, the attic dweller; Rhoda, the nymph of the fountain always wet; both contradicted what was then so positive to me; both gave the other side of what seemed to me so evident (that we marry, that we domesticate); for which I loved them, pitied them, and also deeply envied them their different lot.† (source)
- Could she not have refused, if she was so positive at the time that she was so very moral?† (source)
- Our friend, who is also a business man, was so positive.† (source)
- Are you so positive I poisoned Marfa Petrovna?† (source)
- It may be thought the Doctor was too positive, and Mrs. Almond intimated as much.† (source)
- But you're so positive you know all the lore of the forest.† (source)
- Later she wasn't so positive perhaps; she thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.† (source)
- Why so positive?† (source)
- It was revolting to one so sincere and natural, so pure of heart, and so much disposed to ingenuousness as Mabel Dunham, to practise deception on a friend like June; but her own father's life was at stake, her companion would receive no positive injury, and she had feelings and interests directly touching herself which would have removed greater scruples.† (source)
- She is very pitiable; but then there was no positive engagement; and the air at the coast will do her good.† (source)
- To sum up, in conclusion, that which can be summed up and translated into positive results in all that we have just pointed out, we will confine ourselves to the statement that, in the course of nineteen years, Jean Valjean, the inoffensive tree-pruner of Faverolles, the formidable convict of Toulon, had become capable, thanks to the manner in which the galleys had moulded him, of two sorts of evil action: firstly, of evi† (source)
- But Charles is so positive!† (source)
- Not to speak of other objections, it exposes the romance to an inflexible and exceedingly dangerous species of criticism, by bringing his fancy-pictures almost into positive contact with the realities of the moment.† (source)
- I entertained no positive fears about our household, because we were in the midst of white families who would protect us.† (source)
- They love order, without which affairs do not prosper; and they set an especial value upon a regular conduct, which is the foundation of a solid business; they prefer the good sense which amasses large fortunes to that enterprising spirit which frequently dissipates them; general ideas alarm their minds, which are accustomed to positive calculations, and they hold practice in more honor than theory.† (source)
- They were the first entitled, after Mrs. Weston and Emma, to be made happy;—from them he would have proceeded to Miss Fairfax, but she was so deep in conversation with John Knightley, that it would have been too positive an interruption; and finding himself close to Mrs. Elton, and her attention disengaged, he necessarily began on the subject with her.† (source)
- I was ashamed (even now, perhaps, I am ashamed): I got to the point of feeling a sort of secret abnormal, despicable enjoyment in returning home to my corner on some disgusting Petersburg night, acutely conscious that that day I had committed a loathsome action again, that what was done could never be undone, and secretly, inwardly gnawing, gnawing at myself for it, tearing and consuming myself till at last the bitterness turned into a sort of shameful accursed sweetness, and at last—into positive real enjoyment!† (source)
- The dimness went on deepening into obscurity, and that into positive darkness, but without deterring the bolder spirits upon the knoll.† (source)
- Arthur had felt a sudden relief while Adam was speaking; he perceived that Adam had no positive knowledge of the past, and that there was no irrevocable damage done by this evening's unfortunate rencontre.† (source)
- By a species of pious fraud, for which no doubt the worthy priest found his absolution in the purity of his motives, he declared that, while no positive change was actually wrought in the mind of Middleton, there was every reason to hope the entering wedge of argument had been driven to its head, and that in consequence an opening was left, through which, it might rationally be hoped, the blessed seeds of a religious fructification would find their way, especially if the subject was left uninterruptedly to enjoy the advantage of catholic communion.† (source)
- "And after all," he went on, in an impatient tone, trying to defeat his own scruples as well as hers, "I am breaking no positive engagement; if Lucy's affections had been withdrawn from me and given to some one else, I should have felt no right to assert a claim on her.† (source)
- He begged to be shewn the house which his father had lived in so long, and which had been the home of his father's father; and on recollecting that an old woman who had nursed him was still living, walked in quest of her cottage from one end of the street to the other; and though in some points of pursuit or observation there was no positive merit, they shewed, altogether, a good-will towards Highbury in general, which must be very like a merit to those he was with.† (source)
- I must do THIS justice to Mr. Willoughby—he has broken no positive engagement with my sister.† (source)
- But when Catherine saw her in public, admitting Captain Tilney's attentions as readily as they were offered, and allowing him almost an equal share with James in her notice and smiles, the alteration became too positive to be passed over.† (source)
- No positive engagement indeed!† (source)
- To have sustained no positive loss.† (source)
- He, however, was so positive they were giants that he neither heard the cries of Sancho, nor perceived, near as he was, what they were, but made at them shouting, "Fly not, cowards and vile beings, for a single knight attacks you."† (source)
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