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Examples of refutation in a Sentence
these are hard scientific facts against which there can be no reasonable refutation
Recent Examples of refutation from the Web
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Sputnik News published a refutation, indicating that the fund was not a part of Russian state bank Vnesheconombank, as the CNN report had claimed.
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There must be greater efforts from government, civil society and religious groups to ensure the condemnations, refutations and alternatives to terrorism are sufficiently present and accessible online.
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The best refutation of what Loomis said comes in the fact that Willie Godbolt and Michael Wayne Pettigrew are still alive today.
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In fact, Durocher’s 51-year career as a player and manager was an emphatic refutation of his famous words.
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So far, the model has resisted all attempts at refutation.
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Kahneman says—the discovery of loss aversion proved to be an important refutation of human rationality.
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