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The phrase "a negative tone" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the attitude or manner of speaking or writing that reflects a lack of positivity or optimism. For example: "The speaker used a negative tone when discussing the state of the economy."
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Rather than close on a negative tone, I'll make one suggestion for contestability.
From the first day, Democrats say, Mr. Kyl set a negative tone.
But this ad, while tongue in cheek, projects a negative tone that many analysts believe ultimately may turn off voters.
Ms. Glover disputed that statement and said Mr. DeRise was setting a negative tone at P.S. 206.
3M set a negative tone with a downbeat view on the economy and a lower forecast for full-year earnings.
But "if it had a negative tone on French policies," he said bluntly, "my role was to object to it".
A negative tone, perhaps, when England have arrived in the Ukraine in a position of strength and lifted by Wayne Rooney's return from suspension.
"A lot of people said the '92 convention set a negative tone, and that it set a divisive message for the country," Mr. Bush said.
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Firstly, a negative-tone photoresist (SU-8, MicroChem) flood-exposed to UV light was formed on the substrate as an adhesion layer (<2 μm).
This approach used a top thin film of self-assembled asymmetric polystyrene-block-poly(4- tert-butyldimethylsilyl)oxystyrene) (PS-b-PSSi) as a hard etch mask and an underlying thick film of a negative-tone photoresist (SU-8) for pattern transfer.
"I'm concerned about that because it puts us into a political position that carries a negative [tone].
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