See negative Nancy on Wiktionary
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"text": "2001, Sara Jane Sluke, Vanessa Torres, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Dealing with Stress for Teens\n\"Be wary of being a Negative Nancy.\""
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"ref": "2002, Angela Winters, Dangerous Memories - Page 133",
"text": "\"You're being negative Nancy today,\""
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"ref": "2008, B. Jain Publishers, Cosmic Love - Page 15",
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"ref": "2020 August 12, Richard Fausset, “925 Quarantined for Covid. Is This a Successful School Reopening?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2020:",
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