disprove
Example Sentences
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Prosecutors must first persuade a judge in a special pretrial hearing that a defendant didn’t kill in legitimate self-defense—disproving a person’s claim of mortal fear.
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.
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
Under Nevada law, the office said, it wouldn’t be able to disprove Ruesch’s self-defense claim in court.
It seemed as if last week’s jewelry heist at the Louvre disproved my theory.
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