Examples of disproof in a Sentence
the DNA evidence was all the disproof needed to overturn the wrongful conviction
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If the evolution of China’s political and economic systems was merely disproof of Fukuyama’s thinking, that would be striking enough.
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Benn Steil, Foreign Affairs, 3 Oct. 2025
This is a closed system in which nothing can serve as disproof.
—Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 30 May 2025
The disproof of the telescope conjecture is like that.
—Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 22 Aug. 2023
From a scientific standpoint, these claims of disproof are absurd.
—Jeremy P. Shapiro, The Conversation, 2 May 2023
Born 18 years earlier than Chesterton, Shaw outlived him by another 16, his life encompassing both world wars, unprecedented destruction, and the fundamental disproof of his early progressivism and cosmopolitanism.
—M. D. Aeschliman, National Review, 5 Dec. 2020
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Benn Steil, Foreign Affairs, 3 Oct. 2025
This is a closed system in which nothing can serve as disproof.
—Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 30 May 2025
The disproof of the telescope conjecture is like that.
—Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 22 Aug. 2023
From a scientific standpoint, these claims of disproof are absurd.
—Jeremy P. Shapiro, The Conversation, 2 May 2023
Born 18 years earlier than Chesterton, Shaw outlived him by another 16, his life encompassing both world wars, unprecedented destruction, and the fundamental disproof of his early progressivism and cosmopolitanism.
—M. D. Aeschliman, National Review, 5 Dec. 2020
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“Disproof.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disproof. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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disproof
noun
dis·proof
(ˈ)dis-ˈprüf 
1
: the action of disproving
2
: evidence that disproves
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