disprove

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Braun argued that the portrayal of his client drinking and racing wasn’t supported by the facts and that there was no evidence to disprove his client’s testimony that he was traveling at 55 mph.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

“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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

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 • Mar. 12, 2026

FBI data alone cannot prove or disprove the claim that crime is at a 125-year low because, as he points out, it only started publishing statistics in 1930, and only consistently after 1960.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 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