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3166 examples of Positive in a sentence

If we have a positive view about the future then we may be able to accelerate through that turn, instead of careening off a cliff.
I'm pretty sure that like me, most of you in this room have a similar positive emotional response to these most magnificent of all animals.
The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative.
The other thing about positive emotions is that they have a universal signal.
You can only get positive, that mental shift, if the reality is that prosperity is being built.
The question is, is there a positive social singularity?
Climate is a profoundly complex, nonlinear system, full of runaway positive feedbacks, hidden thresholds and irrevocable tipping points.
And it says if you want to get lucky, you know, you've got to be around positive people.
For each column, he’ll run the same steps— look all the way left for the tallest, do the same to the right, take the lower height of the two, subtract the original column height, and increase the grand total if that number is positive.
So that's another way in which something quite positive can have a nasty kickback.
You have a few minutes to choose four distinct positive whole numbers.
On a positive note, we at last have someone in the White House who has consistently spoken out against these corrosive entities.
There are two main ways ventilators can work— pumping air into the patient’s lungs through positive pressure ventilation, or allowing air to be passively drawn in through negative pressure ventilation.
This led hospitals in the 1960’s to shift towards positive pressure ventilation.
This active bystanding had an almost immediate positive effect.
She saw some similarities in one of the photographs, but couldn't quite make a positive identification.
And a positive identification is made because the photograph replaced the memory, if there ever was an actual memory.
The victim failed to identify Larry in two live lineups and then made a positive identification, days later, from a photo array.
And the research into gay adopters is now showing that this is one of the common themes: gay adopters often choose adoption as their first choice, unlike many heterosexual couples, and because of that, it means we come with a different set of more positive expectations at the beginning.
It was amazing for us, but it was incredibly positive for Steven, at that very difficult time when you're transitioning.
We may not be able to solve the bigotry and the racism of this world today, but certainly we can raise children to create a positive, inclusive, connected world full of empathy, love and compassion.
This young girl and her friend that I met in an orphanage in Delhi were HIV positive from a syringe.
Well, amongst the 100 who do have the disease, the test will get it right 99 percent of the time, and 99 will test positive.
What we have to do, once we know the test is positive, is to weigh up the plausibility, or the likelihood, of two competing explanations.
And they, then, never get any positive feedback.
I've got apparently 18 minutes to convince you that history has a direction, an arrow; that in some fundamental sense, it's good; that the arrow points to something positive.
Non-zero-sum games in which correlations can be positive, OK.
On balance, I think history is a net positive in the non-zero-sum game department.
You could call this the positive feedback of negative vibes, but I think in something so spooky, we really shouldn't have the word positive there at all, even in a technical sense.
So, these two things, you know, if they get people's attention and drive home the positive correlation and people do what's in their self-interests, which is further the moral evolution, then they could actually have a constructive effect.
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