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Examples of disprove in a Sentence
Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe disproved any lingering notions that the earth is flat.
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Now, the new law requires prosecutors to shoulder the burden of disproving a self-defense claim.
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Make no mistake: The idea that African homosexuality is an external import is a myth and has been disproved many times.
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During the April hearing, Bell told Lee that new DNA testing would not disprove older methods that had confirmed Carver’s DNA was found on Yarmolenko’s car.
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But Mackenzie and his colleagues found that those galaxies are no less dense than anywhere else in the universe, disproving that theory.
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This was in fact, Walker shows, a watershed moment for Stalin, his regime and his still young and untested military, disproving the assumption that the Red Army was incapable of fighting a modern war.
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So readers should be skeptical of politicians who attribute one specific factor to turnout, and dig into the underlying studies that prove or disprove the claim.
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The imams are up against the anti-vaccine movement, which in recent years has targeted the Somali-American community with misinformation linking the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine to autism, a claim that extensive research has disproved.
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After many high-profile cases led to several convictions — including some highly questionable cases later disproved — the backlash was almost as fast and furious.
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Origin and Etymology of disprove
Middle English, from Anglo-French desprover, from des- dis- + prover to prove
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: to show that (something) is false or wrong
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: to show to be false or wrong Scientists disproved the theory.
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