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Example sentences for: negation

How can you use “negation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Handy or Ellington or Stevie Wonder in rap; it's a negation of a century of black music.
The fact is that English is, idiomatically, an extremely subtle language, with many taboos, particularly in the area of positive/negative statements and degrees of affirmation and negation.
In both cases, it exists mainly by negation; it nourishes itself upon all that it excludes.
For example, there is not only affirmation by demonstration (ergo, hence, therefore, accordingly , but there is also documentation by postulation (it can be assumed, we can suppose) and also validation by synthesization (basically, in truth, in a very real sense) as well as verification by substitution (that is to say, in other words, in short) . Similarly, there is not only confutation by disputation (on the contrary, notwithstanding, however, nevertheless) , but there is also negation by concession (despite, although, allowing that) and also, not least, refutation by capitulation (it might be argued, it would be easy to conclude) .
Finally, as Tomás Ybarra-Frausto explains, Chicano/a art reflects a “continual effort toward developing an enhanced art of resistance—an art which is not a resistance to the materials and forms of art, but rather a resistance to entrenched social systems of power, exclusion and negation” (1990, 67).