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• If the answer is affirmative, then he is qualified to talk to us.2023 December 9, “Najib wants more time for another run.”, in soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet). From the entry diam
• Another BWMT member said bars have no open advertising for bartenders and no affirmative action policy.1982 April 10, David Morris, “Highly Segregated”, in Gay Community News, page 2. From the entry old boy network
• An affirmative answer was given by Simon in a recent paper on natural merotopies.1980, Topology (issue 23, part 1, page 608). From the entry merotopy
• Twelve States now in the affirmative column at one time or another in the past voted negatively.1935 April 8, “Season’s End”, in Time. From the entry negatively
• That is why the affirmative wish the city manager to be elected by a commission.1918 October 15, “The City Manager Plan. [Condenst Paragrafs.]”, in J. W. Scroogs, editor, University of Oklahoma Bulletin (New Series…. From the entry could not get elected dogcatcher
• Philip wired a succinct affirmative, and next morning a stranger presented himself at the studio.1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XLIX, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC. From the entry wire
• Coincidentally, support for race-conscious policies, such as affirmative action, financial reparations for slavery, and race-based government assistance, have reached record highs.2022 May 2, Zachary Goldberg, “Explaining Shifts in White Racial Liberalism: The Role of Collective Moral Emotions and Media Effects”, in…. From the entry racial
• When you get to your job, some people will assume you got it because of affirmative action or diversity initiatives.2022 November 11, Touré, “Why ‘Atlanta’ Is the Blackest Show Ever”, in The New York Times. From the entry hyperproficient
• They routinely followed up and visited households to encourage them to sustain safe sanitation practices through affirmative, encouraging conversations.2021 July, R. Iyer, J. P. Shukla, A. Verma, “Community Leave No One Behind: Lessons from a Pilot”, in Sanitation Learning Hub Learning…. From the entry Gandhigiri
• Some examples from natural language suggest an affirmative answer.2021, Salvatore Florio, Øystein Linnebo, “Superplurals”, in The Many and the One: A Philosophical Study of Plural Logic, Oxford…. From the entry superplural
• Her conservatism is not affirmative but unindignant, passive.2014, Michael S. Schmidt, The Novel. From the entry unindignant
• If you were to ask an inerrantist if she agrees with Ezek 18:20, she would certainly answer in the affirmative.2011, Thom Stark, The Human Faces of God, page 16. From the entry inerrantist
• I though H had more chance of plaiting fog than coming back with an affirmative to his request.2011, Philip Serrell, Sold to the Man With the Tin Leg. From the entry plait fog
• They are acceptable in characterizing sentences, in modal contexts including partitives and with subtrigging in affirmative episodic contexts.1998, Veneeta Dayal, “"Any" as Inherently Modal”, in Linguistics and Philosophy, volume 21, number 5, →DOI, →JSTOR, page 469. From the entry subtrigging
• Many were the same affirmative reports I’d already examined, but there was also a promising list of anti-circ groups.1997 August 20, Hank Hyena, “Foreskin or against it?”, in Salon. From the entry anti-circ
• Chairman, I feel that any intelligent and reasonable man would have to answer that question in the affirmative.1984, Status of the Air Traffic Control System (98-83): Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the Committee…. From the entry waffley
• It calls for affirmative action on our part.1964 May 27, Senator Wayne Morse, “McNamara's War in South Vietnam (statement of Mr. Morse)”, in Congressional Record: Proceedings and…. From the entry egger-oner
• Whittle asked Billie if the water in the Rest Room was cold, Billie replied in the affirmative, but Mrs.1921, Pollyanna Wigginton, “Keyboard Klippings”, in Jeffry Service, volume VII, number IX, Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, page 12. From the entry lukecold
• The War on Drugs proved popular among key white voters, particularly whites who remained resentful of black progress, civil rights enforcement, and affirmative action.2012, Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow, →ISBN, page 54. From the entry white
• How far have they come since Japan began carrying out affirmative action policies for the buraku four decades ago, mirroring the American civil rights movement?2009 January 16, Norimitsu Onishi, “Japan’s Outcasts Still Wait for Society’s Embrace”, in New York Times. From the entry buraku
• There has been a particularly acute white backlash or 'whitelash' in the United States against affirmative action programmes which promote women and black men.2001, Fiona Mackay, Love and Politics: Women Politicians and the Ethics of Care, Continuum, →ISBN, page 75; n. 3.. From the entry whitelash
• The pamphlet, writes Muray, 'is the supremely affirmative form in which nothing can be turned around, rhythmed or played with in synonyms and rhymes'.1987, Ian Noble, Language and Narration in Céline’s Writings, page 194. From the entry rhythm
• It calls for affirmative action on the part of Great Britain, our "egger-oner." It calls for affirmative action on the part of the other signatories.1964 May 27, Senator Wayne Morse, “McNamara's War in South Vietnam (statement of Mr. Morse)”, in Congressional Record: Proceedings and…. From the entry egger-oner
• In Logic, the letter A is used as a symbol for the universal affirmative proposition in the general form "all x is y."1911, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. From the entry universal
• We return to the painful subject in the gingerliest way imaginable, our mood far from affirmative, but interrogatory from first to last.1909 October 18, “Querying ‘Worse’”, in The Times-Dispatch, number 18,047, Richmond, Va., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 2. From the entry gingerly
• To the best of my recollection, the origin of the Celebration Parallax arose from the need to defend “affirmative action,” a very unpopular policy since its inception.2021 July 26, Michael Anton, ““That’s Not Happening and It’s Good That It Is””, in The American Mind, archived from the original on 15 Jul…. From the entry hitherto
• It appeared to clinch a deal, and was meant to sound the same as the more soldierly Good to go, except it was promiseless — mere affirmative description.2009 August 30, Jonathan Lethem, “Eyes Wide Open”, in New York Times. From the entry promiseless
• Several proponents of affirmative action who were interviewed cited the scandal to dismiss the notion, advanced by some opponents of the policy, that America has moved beyond racial discrimination.1996 November 10, Sam Howe Verhovek, “Vote in California is Motivating Foes of Anti-Bias Plans”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry affirmative action
• The debate on specific affirmative actions has similarly been reduced to mean quotas and preferential treatment of minorities and white women at the expense of white males.1995, Gene A. Lew, Perspectives on Affirmative Action and Its Impact on Asian Pacific Americans. From the entry affirmative action
• The plea that the benefice was full more than six months before the writ was purchased (called the plea of "plenarty") was a good affirmative defense.1982, Robert E Rodes, Lay Authority and Reformation in the English Church. From the entry plenarty
• Replying in the affirmative would not commit you to anything but it would enable us to know what we can offer in the form of voluntary service.1969 June, Editorial, “The Doctor in a National Emergency”, in Singapore Medical Association Newsletter, volume 3, number 1. From the entry tidapathy
• The firm admitted the amount owed, but averred as an affirmative defense that it had hired the expert as an agent of a disclosed principal, the client.1958, American Law Institute., Restatement of the Law, Second: Agency 2d, volume 7, page 533. From the entry principal
• When she applied Superintendent Honig asked her if she was not a trimmer, and when she responded in the affirmative he told her that they had no work for her.1949, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 1155. From the entry sleever

Meaning of affirmative

1. adjective Pertaining to truth; asserting that something is; affirming.
2. adjective Pertaining to any assertion or active confirmation that favors a particular result.
3. adjective Positive.

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How do you use affirmative in a sentence?

Affirmative is used as an adjective, noun and interjection. For example: “That’s an affirmative Houston, the space shuttle has lost the secondary thrusters.”

What is a short sentence with affirmative?

“an affirmative answer”

What does affirmative mean?

Affirmative means pertaining to truth; asserting that something is; affirming.