confute

Example Sentences

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Delighted at this really "safe" issue, the Deputies rose to support or confute Dr. Pinard.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sometimes they illustrate his thesis; sometimes they confute it.

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Healthy, vigorous and solvent, they confute the view that old age, as William Butler Yeats put it, is nothing but a tattered coat upon a stick.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now comes the "mediator" trying to keep peace between many power centers and "the Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute."

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There must be hundreds of instances to confute him, only for the moment she could not remember any of them.

From The Turnstile by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)