How to Use negation in a Sentence

negation

noun

• But the concept of negation still tripped up the chatbots.
  — Max G. Levy, Quanta Magazine, 12 May 2023
• But the negation of the right of Jews to a refuge in Israel is broader and goes back further.
  — WSJ, 6 Feb. 2022
• For some fliers, the stillness is accompanied by a sense of negation of the self.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
• And Google’s Periscope can be fooled by simple typos and negations.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2017
• King Lear is among the most complete statements of negation in English.
  — David Yezzi, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2018
• For Levé, the point of writing is not just expression but also its negation.
  — David L. Ulin, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
• But refusing to give in to a politics of negation, despite it all, this is punk rock.
  — J.j. Gould, The New Republic, 22 Mar. 2018
• Trump's lawyers and Mueller's team are in the midst of negations over what topics an interview with the President could focus on.
  — Dan Merica, CNN, 22 Mar. 2018
• This is poetry of the will written by the will to celebrate the will even in its perversity and negation.
  — The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
• The negation as a prefix signals this part of our identity is never enough.
  — Ching Ching Tan, CNN, 18 Dec. 2021
• Had Logan meant to underline Kendall’s name for emphasis or cross it out in an act of negation?
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2023
• Spore is a world unto itself, where destruction (negation) forms a new, round world.
  — Rebecca Horne, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2012
• The Jim Crow Museum restated its negation of the claim in a 2020 article.
  — Emiliano Tahui Gómez, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2022
• Lawyers involved in the negations told the NYT that the settlement has gotten approval from the major parties involved.
  — Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, 12 Dec. 2019
• If a property belongs to the set, its negation is not included.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2022
• The foundation of hunting was a discovery of logic: the working of negation.
  — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2020
• Replacing Obama is not enough—Trump has made the negation of Obama’s legacy the foundation of his own.
  — Danielle Jackson, Longreads, 18 Sep. 2017
• The denial of self, the pursuit of originality and the negation of impulses.
  — Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2021
• In German, the word for the uncanny comes from a negation of the word for the homely, unheimlich from heimlich, a quick slip, on a prefix’s turn, from the cozy to the claustrophobic.
  — Gillian Osborne, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
• The proof of this outcome spanned decades and, naturally, split into two major parts: the proof that CH is consistent, and the proof that the negation of CH is consistent.
  — Dave Linkletter, Popular Mechanics, 28 Jan. 2022
• But the simple idea of not ever drinking again seemed impossible, a grim negation of all convivial life.
  — Maggie Nelson, Harper's Magazine, 28 Sep. 2021
• Here the ideal self is everything the wife is not, all the qualities summoned, via negation, by her brutal dismissal.
  — Merve Emre, The New York Review of Books, 6 Apr. 2022
• His focus is black history itself, its twists, its turns, its triumphs and self-negations.
  — Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2019
• But as the story rushes to a close, her narrator lands on something else entirely: negation.
  — Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2022
• To build a world in the fullest sense of the word requires an almost Buddha-like commitment to self-negation and indeterminacy.
  — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 8 June 2022
• One option is to add an extra layer of language processing to negation.
  — Max G. Levy, Quanta Magazine, 12 May 2023
• She was used to asserting herself through negation, absence, and will finally feel alive.
  — Holly Jones, Variety, 25 Apr. 2022
• But here, there’s a deeper reason Gay might be pulled toward negation and substitution.
  — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 26 June 2017
• But as ever in the Trump White House, no public-relations campaign survives a full news cycle before self-negation.
  — Isobel Thompson, vanityfair.com, 17 Oct. 2017
• The culture of negation inspires a taste for nothingness and glorifies numbness.
  — New York Times, 19 Jan. 2021

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024