prove false
Example Sentences
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The risk to the strategy—and it is hard to overstate it—is that stocks will plummet should reports of peace prove false.
From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026
He was so good at ideas mixed with drama that he could create a drama which would prove false the notion that class should matter or language or a person’s ability with either.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2021
Other senators noted that the argument for treating the issue as a matter of juvenile misbehavior does not hold if Kavanaugh’s current denials prove false.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2018
There is almost always a reason to be nervous, but the vast majority prove false.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2017
Yet the prophecy was destined to prove false: for on Aug.
From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by Chambers, R. W.
