gainsay

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If the market wants to slap a similarly elevated price on elegant technical solutions to gnarly game-theory problems and call it a cryptocurrency, who am I to gainsay it?

From Washington Post

DeTrinis begins the show in the persona of an obsequiously agreeable guest at a party, braying with self-deprecating laughter and immediately gainsaying every opinion he ventures: “I love Adele! You’re right, I hate her.”

From Los Angeles Times

There’s no gainsaying that it wasn’t a perfectly adequate way to kill a couple of hours in Washington, or that for not a few visitors it was an eye-opening experience.

From Los Angeles Times

Yet Chazelle’s verdict on the two films’ relative merits is hard to gainsay.

From The Guardian

Her role in passing the Affordable Care Act was absolutely heroic and should not be gainsaid.

From The New Yorker