controvert
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Most of his life off the pitch controverts those synonymic comparisons.
From Washington Post • Jan. 1, 2023
Development fees, which were subject to public scrutiny and controverts last year, have also been raised from $5,000 to $33,000 for ranch owners.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2019
For no scientist is now revered so highly that his theories will not be discarded if experiment controverts them.
From Time Magazine Archive
The author controverts the views of Darwin, Owen, Huxley, Bunsen, Colenso, and others.
From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher)
I answer for you, that We-We of the Athen�um, not being Wa-Wa the wild goose, so conspicuous in "Hiawatha," will leave what controverts itself to print itself, if it please.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene
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