as in refuting
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as in overturning
to prove to be false
theories which will eventually be confirmed or confuted by experience
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Verb
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Late in the evening, the sheriff's office posted that no injuries or deaths had been reported from the storm, refuting social media rumors.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA TODAY,
11 Mar. 2026 -
But the company is refuting the claims.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
16 Feb. 2026
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Kingrey acknowledges there are a number of different voices at the table, some of them making contradictory demands of the university, including a vocal group that will treat the 2004 agreement as gospel and argue to keep it unchanged.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
22 Mar. 2026
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An off-road sports car may sound like the thickest of oxymorons, but Porsche has history with that contradictory term.—
Will Sabel Courtney,
Robb Report,
19 Mar. 2026
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“Confuting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/confuting. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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