controvert
Example Sentences
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“Unless controverted, these affidavits seem to establish clearly the fact that Pouren was a revolutionist,” the president wrote.
From Washington Post • Aug. 13, 2022
This meant that every invented story de Man had told the university about his background was now either controverted or in question.
From Salon • Mar. 30, 2014
The devout, to begin with, are not wont to view their precepts merely as propositions to be controverted or confirmed.
From Scientific American • Mar. 14, 2014
Last week they returned to the Senate where Generalissimo Reed Smoot asked that they be released from their instructions, that the Senate recede from its demand for these two controverted items.
From Time Magazine Archive
As appears from all official publications, without the facts being controverted by our own White Book, which, owing to its poverty and gaps, constitutes a grave self-accusation: 1.
From Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 by Various
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