refutation

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Fifteen years before he would become, in May 1940, a refutation of that supposition, Winston Churchill and his romantic temperament made him regret what he considered the “obliteration of the personal factor in war.”

From Washington Post

If a notion is convenient enough in justifying a preferred outcome, it can survive despite mountains of evidentiary, or just common sense, refutation.

From Washington Post

Its meaning is ambiguous, connoting to some a respect for the law and others a racist refutation of the Black Lives Matter movement.

From Washington Post

If ever there was a refutation of the strict constructionists’ argument it is these words of Jefferson.

From Seattle Times

Wade, “Alito’s draft is less a refutation of Roe than a starting over.”

From Washington Post