Sentence examples for two negatives from inspiring English sources

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"two negatives" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to emphasize two negative aspects of something or express an even stronger degree of negation. Example: "The trip was terrible; not only did it rain the whole time, but they also lost our luggage too - two negatives."

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But there are two negatives.

The two negatives equal a positive".

In this case, two negatives didn't equal a positive.

The ones that followed swept them up, the two negatives.

Though privet hedges are handsome, two negatives come to mind immediately.

In his great dictionary, Johnson called irresistless a "barbarous ungrammatical conjunction of two negatives".

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Two negative, two positive.

This has two negative effects.

It had two negative reviews in the Washington Post.

Those who receive two negative assessments face deportation.

I had one or two negative comments on Twitter, but nothing that concerned me.

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