refute

Example Sentences

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It feels like he doesn’t deserve to hear me refute him.

From Literature

He wanted to refute the idea that in the space of a day, the pesky badger had found a way to burrow into his heart.

From Literature

Taiwanese authorities have refuted the rumours, saying there are sufficient LNG reserves for March and April.

From Barron's

Art Tinoco, the Riverside County registrar of voters, has refuted that number — saying it was based on a misunderstanding of raw data that had not been fully processed.

From Los Angeles Times

And if her goofier choices were unanimously refuted as artistic inferiority, we’d never get the chance to see her bounce from “Babygirl” to “Holland” to playing an Italian forensic pathologist in “Scarpetta.”

From Salon