Kinda. This was an example I made up on the fly, but sometimes you don't just want to exclude a term from the search, but you want to see it explicitly semantically excluded in the document.
Eg, "js without transpilation" gives quality results, but often times, especially when it's dealing with more popular search queries, it just kinda focuses on the keywords without any context.
For the search "social media without kids" I was actually looking for some articles that would focus on how the content changes depending on the age group. Or articles about social media focused on "adult things" like HN.
It's crazy how often I find myself doing this. The results returned still aren't always amazing but it pretty consistently massively improves signal-to-noise.
The point is to force Google towards a site you expect may have the result you want. site:news.ycombinator.com works for similar reasons.
Basically, you can find (likely organic) discussion of topics by groups who are familiar with the subject and are likely to quickly correct any incorrect or misleading statements.
Otherwise, Google will believe that some no-name site with generated content is... somehow... a good search result. The 'reddit' approach works poorly for me recently, Google gets stuck in certain sub-reddits and there's a lot of low quality or bot content on reddit to filter out anyway.
For the query "monkeypox gym" I'm getting COVID-19 results.
For the query "social network without kids" I'm getting results for social networks aimed at kids.
For the query "cakes without strawberries" I'm getting... This: https://imgur.com/a/Os1kkcP