refutation
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Every single refutation of their conspiracy theory just proves that the conspiracy goes even further and deeper than they thought.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 10, 2025
Yet I spelled out the two-part criteria for defining cases, qualifying them as “extraordinary evidence” and opening myself to a decisive refutation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
He also coauthored a detailed refutation of the theory that the Taurid swarm caused a global climate disaster 12,900 years ago.
From Science Daily • Oct. 31, 2025
Again, the defense notched no direct refutation of prosecutorial testimony, or even cleanly summarized any takeaway for the record.
From Slate • Oct. 27, 2023
But if this argument is pressed too far it becomes difficult to explain why, in the eighteenth century, modern chemistry established itself not as a continuation of but as a refutation of alchemy.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing refutation
Introducing Rhetoric: Using the "Available Means" (Chapter 1)
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100 SAT words Beginning with "R"
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Analyzing Arguments: From Reading to Writing (Chapter 3)
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