disprove
Example Sentences
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“We see this cyclical caution from investors as prudent given past memory bust cycles, and acknowledge that the bear case is difficult to disprove in the near-term,” Weathers writes.
I go back to, and this is the conversation I have internally as well, the hardest thing to disprove is a negative.
Adobe’s fiscal first-quarter results largely cleared Wall Street’s bar, but its modest earnings beat for the period wasn’t enough to disprove the narrative around artificial-intelligence disruption that’s weighed on software stocks.
From MarketWatch
Lowry immediately landed a job directing his first museum, taking the gig in part “to disprove my father telling me there were no jobs in Islamic art.”
It had previously been thought that vaccinating children against chickenpox would cause a problematic rise in the linked condition shingles, but a recent long-term study from the US disproved that theory.
From BBC
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