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Recent Examples of refute These findings refuted longstanding preconceived beliefs about humans and animals. Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025 The appellate court's decision refuted multiple issues with Avery's arguments. Kelli Arseneau, jsonline.com, 1 Oct. 2025 An annual spectacle to refute our constant erasure, whether intended or committed in ignorance, from the zeitgeist. Rodney Carmichael, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025 Health experts and medical organizations are refuting claims of a link between Tylenol use during pregnancy and autism. Beth Warren, Nashville Tennessean, 25 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for refute
Recent Examples of Synonyms for refute
Verb
  • Upon the basis of these findings, Congress declares that the constitutional right of citizens to vote is denied or abridged in some areas by the requirement of the payment of a poll tax as a precondition to voting.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The administration says the white South African farmers face discrimination and violence in South Africa, which the country’s government denies.
    Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Pritzker has been trying to debunk claims that Chicago is an out-of-control hellhole; to assert in court that the federal government has no right to send in federal troops; and to discredit the tactics by immigration agents to arrest migrants in his state’s streets and businesses.
    Ben Smith, semafor.com, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Demonstrations can be hard to describe and easy to discredit.
    Nancy Gibbs, Time, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The council had already rejected Allied once before, months earlier, over settlements — including back wages — that the company has had to pay out to current and former employees.
    Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Teachers, students, and parents alike rejected the $850 million effort.
    Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Why do some people endorse claims that can easily be disproved?
    Abraham Rutchick, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Abramov points out that this does not disprove the Mars life explanation, but rather just presents an alternative, albeit much more probable, explanation for the evidence.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • However, the facts contradict these reports.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Arrest of Massachusetts teen A 13-year-old in Everett, Massachusetts, was detained by ICE and moved to a different state last week in a case in which local officials have contradicted a key statement from a DHS official.
    Josh Campbell, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Additionally, the letter calls on Congressional support for the European Union to overturn its ban on Sulfuryl Fluoride, a pesticide used to fumigate Southern Yellow Pine wood chips on breakbulk cargo ships.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The British Library overturned its initial decision by issuing Wilde’s proxy a new card in his name.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Then-Media School Dean James Shanahan rebutted the assertion, saying the school had never sought to influence the paper's content.
    Cate Charron, IndyStar, 14 Oct. 2025
  • At Tuesday’s meeting and prior to a vote by the council, Fuller will be given the right to rebut the grounds for the censure proposed.
    Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Since Olympic charter flights to Milan will be departing from the New York area, and because the Islanders had been promised an event in February 2026, the possibility of doing a big press availability was discussed as an alternative.
    Chris Johnston, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Elsewhere in the podcast, Shallow discusses her penchant for using femininity and flirtation as reality TV weapons, and how that nickname cast a shadow on her real-life relationships.
    Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Oct. 2025

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