negative catalyst

American  

noun

Chemistry.

1. an inhibitor.

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Etymology

Origin of negative catalyst

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

Ahmed keeps a buy rating on the stock, but opens a negative catalyst watch on the stock ahead of logistics operator DSV’s capital markets day in May.

From The Wall Street Journal

The negative catalyst was a blog post from Anthropic, which highlighted a new Claude Code feature that automates the modernization of common business-oriented language, a programming language used for data processing.

From MarketWatch

January also saw a negative catalyst from the debut of an experimental Google AI product called Project Genie, which can generate three-dimensional virtual worlds and place controllable characters in them.

From Barron's

J.P.Morgan has placed the Danish shipping company on negative catalyst watch ahead of results on Feb. 5.

From The Wall Street Journal

“We were at risk for at least a pullback with even a mild catalyst because sentiment was at an extreme. What we got was the ultimate negative catalyst.”

From Washington Post