Certain buzzwords, like "welfare" or "crime," are meant to be negative references to black Americans.

In the official version "negative references to acts such as torture, abuse, and extra judicial killings were blacked out without an explanation."

Employers also refrain from giving negative references out of fear that teachers will sue for defamation.

Any negative reference to Muslims as a group is moderated out.

The article also made negative references to Italians and homosexuals.

The vice president has been determined to avoid negative references to Mr. Bush over the last few weeks.

It is, by chance, the only negative reference to an opposing player on any plaque in the Hall of Fame.

Many quality assessment measures have been proposed to measure the degree of differentiation between a positive control and a negative reference.

- a negative reference to the reintroduction of Catholicism.

And there is hardly a 19th-century novel that does not include at least a passing negative reference to "a Jew."