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The Pregnancy Project
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- Saida took it personally when people said negative things about me, and I once had to really calm her down when she wanted to go after someone who had insulted me and said I was becoming "annoying" now that I was pregnant.†
p. 137.8 *negative = bad or harmful
- Why would you ever let someone else's negative thoughts dictate how you're going to live your life?†
p. 60.1
- I gave him as much detail as I could about what I envisioned: I would keep a journal about my experiences, enlist my best friend to listen in on the hall chatter about me, write down the comments people said about me on cards to be read at a school assembly at the end of the year, and talk about why it's important not to follow the negative stereotypes other people may have about you.†
p. 85.5
- There's some proof that a woman's troubled emotional state can negatively affect the fetus's development in the womb.†
p. 120.1
- It was just all negativity, all the time.†
p. 124.9
- The thing is, I understand where the negativity comes from.†
p. 124.9
- It was getting harder to know who I could trust, and overall, I was just getting a lot more negative attention than I'd bargained for.†
p. 143.1
- It showed kids holding up large signs with negative stereotypes about teens written on them: that we're party animals, we're bad drivers, we make bad decisions, we are self-centered, and so on.†
p. 154.8
- I heard only one negative comment that day, and it was from the guy who had told me before the assembly that my project sounded boring.†
p. 160.7
- The negativity centered around a few things: Misunderstanding my purpose "The goal is to make it more acceptable to have out of wedlock children and have the rest of us embrace it.†
p. 182.8
- A few words of encouragement can go a long way when the messages she's hearing all day are negative.†
p. 213.5
Definitions:
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(negative as in: had a negative effect) bad or harmful
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(negative as in: negative feedback from customers) to express criticism or disagreement, or (especially when talking over a radio or in a military setting) to say "no"
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(negative as in: a negative attitude) pessimistic (emphasizing bad things) or disagreeable
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(negative as in: The test came back negative.) did not find a condition or substance to be present
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(negative as in: a negative number) less than zero
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) See a comprehensive dictionary for less common meanings of negative including some in the fields of electricity, physics, chemistry, medicine, photography, and grammar. Note that most non-technical senses of negative indicate that something is bad or lacking.