disproved
Example Sentences
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The Fellowship’s religious claims are never disproved, history suggests, just yet to be proved.
From Salon ● May 29, 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
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 ● Jan. 1, 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
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
