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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are not not" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to emphasize a negation or to create a double negative for stylistic or rhetorical effect.
Example: "The results of the experiment are not not significant, suggesting that there may be some underlying trends worth exploring."
Alternatives: "are indeed significant" or "are not insignificant".
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Women are not not going backward.
Whatever the lessons of this show, it doesn't take a connoisseur to know that these miracles are not Not Rembrandt.
"People are not not spending, but they are changing how they spend," said Marshal Cohen, chief analyst at the NPD Group.
"Part of organising is listening to what people are saying," says Dobbs. "We are indeed marching by Madison Square Garden, and we are not, not going to that dreadful West Side Highway".
The United States now defines them by what they are not: not enemy combatants, not welcome here, and not returnable to China, where they might be tortured (although the Bush Administration reportedly let Chinese agents interrogate them in Guantánamo).
So the general horse is not black, because some horses are not black; but nor is it not black, because some horses are not not black.
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In its worst moments, this has amounted to a national identity of "not-Russian" — a fraught formula for national consciousness in a country where so many people are not not-Russian at all.
Except that they aren't, not entirely.
(The doctors at the desk aren't "not doing anything".
"The old places aren't not hot," Bear says.
"It's not not real," Sam replies.
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