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[dis-proov] / dɪsˈpruv /


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“The only way you disprove that is by putting your head down and doing the work 10 times harder,” Roy said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Reconstructing one cybersecurity incident doesn’t disprove Mr. Hubinger’s probability estimate or Mr. Amodei’s warning about future systems.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

"In situations like that, the line becomes blurred. Relationship issues are difficult to disprove."

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

It’s an idea that some mathematicians believe is true but nobody has been able to prove or disprove.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026

And as there was no way to disprove these rumors they grew marvelous and very real.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

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

Sala, has denied the sexual assault allegation in comments to the media, saying he has proof that disproves the sheriff’s claim.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025

One of his new songs disproves that theory.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2024

Sertorius what I say disproves, For though his Bibula is poor, he loves.

From Roman Women by Alfred Brittain

He said that with closed-circuit cameras everywhere, any allegation of a security breach easily can be validated or disproved.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

Barton has no training and less than zero credibility, having been caught repeatedly peddling easily disproved lies.

From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2026

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

Demonstrate that their conspiracy theory is, say, disproved by the law of gravity, and they will conclude … that Sir Isaac Newton was “in on it” too.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2025

His “Cosmic Mystery” was disproved entirely by the much later discoveries of the planets Uranus, Neptune and Pluto—there are no additional platonic solids' that would determine their distances from the sun.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Rather than disproving AI’s potential, this hiring rebound suggests many employers misunderstood where AI creates value.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

"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

While researchers have speculated that this may happen, there hasn't been any direct visualization at the atomic scale proving or disproving the theory.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 2024

The other night Dr. Strauss was saying that an experi- mental failure, the disproving of a theory, was as important to the advancement of learning as a success would be.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes


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