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Recent Examples of positives
However, the positives have increasingly outweighed the negatives throughout 2026, to the point where, at the time of writing, the game has a 74% positive score for reviews written in the past 30 days (of which there have been 951).
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Barry Collins,
Forbes.com,
4 July 2026
From Gurnee to North Chicago, there are a lot of positives in this nascent new year, including the positive reuse of deserted properties.
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Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Feb. 2026
Barry Collins,
Forbes.com,
4 July 2026
From Gurnee to North Chicago, there are a lot of positives in this nascent new year, including the positive reuse of deserted properties.
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Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for positives
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And on July 2, after the arrival of British forces in New York lent the proceedings new urgency, Congress did, in fact, declare independence—with a vote of 12 yeas, 0 nays, and 1 abstention.
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Caltrans has cleaned up the site twice over the past five yeas.
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Creatives can check a large item off their wishlist for heavy-duty photo and video editing, plus other pros will enjoy plenty of space for data analysis, coding, and other multitasking projects.
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Here are three stocks favored by some of Wall Street’s top pros, according to TipRanks, a platform that ranks analysts based on their past performance.
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In June 2026, the teenagers made their television debut on the 21st season of America's Got Talent, earning yeses from all four judges as their mother watched from the sidelines.
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While that effort went down with a wider margin, 84 nos and 17 yeses, a dozen Republicans supported it, revealing the extent of unease over the issue within the Senate GOP conference.
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“Positives.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/positives. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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