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
Most people who tackled this problem tried to prove Erdős’s conjecture, rather than disprove it.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026
He added that software companies right now have no way to disprove the thesis of disruption because that thesis is that the disruption will come in a few years, rather than now.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 24, 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
On the other hand, you can disprove a theory by finding even a single observation that disagrees with the predictions of the theory.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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