Affirmative is an English word with synonyms like positive or negative. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Affirmative in a sentence
Related words
Affirmative meaning
- pertaining to truth; asserting that something is; affirming
- pertaining to any assertion or active confirmation that favors a particular result
- positive
Synonyms of Affirmative
Using Affirmative
- The main meaning on this page is: pertaining to truth; asserting that something is; affirming | pertaining to any assertion or active confirmation that favors a particular result | positive
- Useful related words include: positive, negative, avouchment, avowal.
- In the example corpus, affirmative often appears in combinations such as: affirmative action, the affirmative, of affirmative.
Context around Affirmative
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 9 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Affirmative
- In this selection, "affirmative" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, chair, recall, previously, action, defenses and doubling stand out and add context to how "affirmative" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 35 percent affirmative action was and affirmative action for. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "affirmative" sits close to words such as afro, aiding and approving, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with affirmative
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Around 60% of students support affirmative action. (7 words)
And guess who was the biggest benefactor of Affirmative Action? (10 words)
And the response in both instances was in the affirmative. (10 words)
And once affirmative action for women is fulfilled, and then affirmative action shares the element, as Izareli put it, the "group equality discourse," making it easier for other groups to claim for a fairer distribution of resources. (37 words)
The existence of affirmative action would appear to suggest something like the opposite: I don’t recall affirmative action in apartheid South Africa, for example, which was what a white supremacist social order actually looks like. (36 words)
And, of course, in the next couple of weeks the Supreme Court is all but certain to hand down a decision on affirmative action that is likely to force more positive change in this area. (35 words)
And guess who was the biggest benefactor of Affirmative Action? (10 words)
Example sentences (20)
The VHP of America’s advocacy wing recently in support of the Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action ruling, and its other right-wing PACs opposed to affirmative action.
Accra, Sept. 18, GNA – Mrs Joana Adzoa Opare, Former Chair, Affirmative Action Law, National Working Committee, has called on government to fast track the passage of the Affirmative Action Bill.
The existence of affirmative action would appear to suggest something like the opposite: I don’t recall affirmative action in apartheid South Africa, for example, which was what a white supremacist social order actually looks like.
This alone can enable newer groups to get the benefits of affirmative action through social reengineering or else, the tool of affirmative action will breed new injustice.
Affirmative Action Purpose As mentioned previously affirmative action was introduced through the Employment Equality Act, 55 in 1998, 4 years after the end of Apartheid.
And once affirmative action for women is fulfilled, and then affirmative action shares the element, as Izareli put it, the "group equality discourse," making it easier for other groups to claim for a fairer distribution of resources.
With these negative and positive outcomes of Affirmative Action it is evident that the concept of affirmative action is a continuous and learning idea.
Affirmative action, for example, is a problematic topic for the Democratic Party, even though most of its voters support the policy, because there are more Democrats who oppose it than Republicans who support it.
Affirmative action was at best a modest form of recompense for centuries of exploitation and exclusion — far short of the reparations more than three in four Black Americans.
All three affirmative defenses rely on proving that the accused person disclosed their status.
Already this week, the court handed down blockbuster decisions on affirmative action and election law.
And guess who was the biggest benefactor of Affirmative Action?
And, of course, in the next couple of weeks the Supreme Court is all but certain to hand down a decision on affirmative action that is likely to force more positive change in this area.
And the response in both instances was in the affirmative.
Around 60% of students support affirmative action.
As Black students at an elitist university where affirmative action is extremely necessary, processing this ruling has been hard,” the Stanford Black Student Union (BSU) in a statement following the decision.
Asked whether they considered Israel a “friendly country”, 53 percent replied in the affirmative while 36 percent said they were undecided.
At the time, the bill seeking to create extra 111 seats for women and legislation on 35 percent affirmative action was rejected.
Audiences answered in the affirmative, doubling the total gross of its predecessor and demanding a third chapter in the series.
Biden spoke about the effects of the “affirmative action” regime with the confidence of a guidance counselor, but not the candor.
Common combinations with affirmative
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- affirmative action 137×
- the affirmative 36×
- of affirmative 14×
- on affirmative 11×
- an affirmative 11×
- and affirmative 10×
- to affirmative 7×
- down affirmative 7×
- that affirmative 6×
- first affirmative 5×