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- noun Plural form of
positive .
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Examples
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Selling the negatives and hiding the positives is a really bad strategy.
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January 1st, 2010 at 2: 15 pm the issue of false positives is the key issue.
Matthew Yglesias » Very Rare Terrorists Are Very Hard to Find
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The purpose of the statistical policeman is to separate the true positives from the false ones.
Freeze - Statistics Police!, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Three negatives with no positives is an automatic F -.
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THE GOOD NEWS: Former coach Kirk Speraw became the school's winningest coach last season and, to hear him tell it, there were more positives from the season than it appears at first glance.
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While stressing the long-term positives of Egypt, he talks at length about the potential of Africa as an investment proposition, emphasizing its abundance of natural resources, favorable demographics and untapped growth.
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THE GOOD NEWS: Former coach Kirk Speraw became the school's winningest coach last season and, to hear him tell it, there were more positives from the season than it appears at first glance.
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Investors should expect the same positives from the likes of Goodrich, Hexcel, Spirit AeroSystems, Rockwell-Collins, AAR Corp. and other more diversified civil aviation parts contractors such as Moog, Curtiss-Wright and Teledyne.
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This crisis will be remembered for generations by Pakistanis -- and the long term positives that could emanate from a robust, humanitarian response combined with an international TVA-like commitment to managing this watershed could neutralize the current high-fear, tense regional dynamic.
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This crisis will be remembered for generations by Pakistanis -- and the long term positives that could emanate from a robust, humanitarian response combined with an international TVA-like commitment to managing this watershed could neutralize the current high-fear, tense regional dynamic.
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