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It seemed to disprove the understanding that AI has been hurting mostly younger employees and those in entry-level jobs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026

Most people who tackled this problem tried to prove Erdős’s conjecture, rather than disprove it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

Third, by demanding that plaintiffs disentangle race from politics, the court asks them to disprove the very structural reality that social network discrimination reveals.

From Slate ● May 22, 2026

One historian on the Bergier Commission was permitted, briefly, to look at some of the Mengele files in 1999, and concluded that it was impossible to prove or disprove his presence on Swiss territory.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

Thomas Bradwardine, who was to become archbishop of Canterbury, tried to disprove atomism, Aristotle’s old nemesis.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

The study also disproves the widely repeated claim that baby rattlesnakes cannot control how much venom they release and therefore inject all of it when they bite.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026

For a company that prides itself on entering categories late and defining them, Apple’s AI execution has been the exception that disproves the rule.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 21, 2026

In fact, the history of whaling on its own disproves the central point of “The Killing Age,” that guns were a sine qua non for the making of the modern world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

It's a looser arrangement than their previous deal - but it disproves claims that the Sussexes and Netflix are going to completely part company.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2025

History discountenances this assumption, and Biology plainly disproves it.

From Bible Romances First Series by Foote, G. W. (George William)

India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party just disproved one of the oldest truisms in the country’s politics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

Chief among them: statements without clearly defined facts attached, meaning that they can neither be proved nor disproved; statements involving cherry-picked facts; and promises.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 24, 2026

Retail investors have emerged in the past five years as a powerful force that, en masse, has disproved investment disciplines like “Buy low and sell high.”

From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026

Both he and Siobhain McDonagh, a Labour MP who appeared on BBC's Politics Live on Thursday, raised comments by a former HR manager, Jane Wayper - which, they said, disproved the BBC News's story.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2025

Fossils, for example, and whether their existence disproved the Book of Genesis; Brother Mendel’s experiments on the sexual reproduction of the sweet pea; the fallacy of laudable pus.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

"Ryanair looks forward to disproving these false CMA claims during this bogus investigation," it added.

From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026

In my clinical practice, I’ve learned that the key isn’t just disproving individual claims about Tylenol, autism, or vaccines—it’s explaining how to think about medical evidence.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2025

She criticised the accounts of prosecution witnesses, and said the investigation had focussed on "disproving the Geeveses version of events" rather than investigating the cause of Amber’s disappearance.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2024

Brawn and co-author Henry Pollock, who did postdoctoral research in NRES, already showed that both temperate and tropical birds can withstand temperature extremes, disproving the climate variability hypothesis across latitudes.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 2024

An admirable outcome, were this world one Fastness of the Handdara, but alas we must walk forward troubling the new snow, proving and disproving, asking and answering.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin