affirmative in the PONS Dictionary

affirmative Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to answer [or reply], in the affirmative
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By the 1970s the magazine had moved to demanding colorblind policies and the end of affirmative action.
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The action of a verb in the affirmative form does happen, but the action of a verb in the negative form does not happen.
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Recent work has solved this latter problem in the affirmative.
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This became a commonly held liberal position, and large numbers of public and private universities began affirmative action programs.
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This last question implied an affirmative answer and a choice.
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The case (decided in 1978) upheld affirmative action in the admission of minority students as one of several factors to consider, not the primary one.
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However, the predicate of a universal affirmative claim won't really fit any of these models.
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Would-be farmers with a previously disadvantaged background obtain farms privately or through affirmative action loans.
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Within the system, he s a pitiful nothing, unable to speak without a teleprompter, an affirmative-action phony doomed to inevitable defeat.
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Although the literary language tends toward keeping the particles in full, affirmative is optional before.
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