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1 —1 use as in:
I'm absolutely positive!
Definition
certain (having no doubt; or used for emphasis)
- 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.Part 2 (14% in)
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- It gives a positive goal to work toward that does not confine.Afterward (37% in)
- But history keeps happening, and it seems no harm and maybe some positive good to add to our historical heritage with some talk in this area of discourse.Part 1 (88% in)
- Later, when I developed more confidence in my immunity to his affliction, I became interested in this debris in a more positive way and began to jot down the fragments amorphically, that is, without regard to form, in the order in which they occurred to me.Part 3 (2% in)
- The vacuum that had been created by the withholding of grades was suddenly filled with the positive goal of Quality, and the whole thing fit together.Part 3 (16% in)
- The specter of technology the Sutherlands are running from becomes not an evil but a positive fun thing.Part 3 (42% in)
- I certainly don't see Aristotle's works as a major source of either positive or negative values.Part 4 (37% in)
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