as in overturning
to prove to be false
theories which will eventually be confirmed or confuted by experience
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as in refuting
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Verb
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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 -
Barrett himself previously addressed the rumors surrounding his time off, refuting any suggestion that he had been removed from his position.—
Andrew Ravens,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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Hegel calls this our amphibian condition to be caught between two contradictory worlds.—
Harmon Siegel,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
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But the HHAs made the convergence between the genre's corporate ambitions and cultural traditions seem less contradictory.—
Rodney Carmichael,
NPR,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Confuting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/confuting. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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