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Discover LudwigThe phrase "actually negative" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to clarify or emphasize that something is indeed negative, often in contrast to a previous assumption or statement.
Example: "While the initial results seemed promising, the final analysis revealed that the outcomes were actually negative."
Alternatives: "truly negative" or "genuinely negative".
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The rate of return on this "investment" is actually negative.
The wealth of the poorest 20percentt, as measured by net worth, is actually negative.
As I write this, it's 2.24 percent, with the yield on inflation-protected bonds actually negative.
In others, it's actually negative (although also not to a statistically significant degree).
What she found was surprising: The impact of Medicaid enrollment is not actually negative across the board.
But the key, it seems to me, is actually negative thinking: looking for, and sometimes expecting, failure.
Yet the so-called swap spread is actually negative and Treasury yields (vs. swaps) are unusually high relative to history.
We find that the nutritional impact caused by the subsidy was at best extremely small, and for some households actually negative.
Add to that the pressure on land use to grow more corn, and some analysts say its impact in terms of global warming emissions is actually negative.
Actually, negative research may have been genuinely successful because much of medical science is to rule out this or that factor to learn what else to focus on.
Meanwhile, with real interest rates very low — actually negative on 5-year bonds — the cost of borrowing now in terms of future debt burden is also very low.
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