disprove
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While Bernstein analyst Mark Moerdler gives Adobe’s stock an outperform rating, he wrote in a note last week that there’s not enough data for the company to “disprove the bear thesis” yet.
From MarketWatch
Edwards also cites the Bloomberg strategist Simon White to disprove the notion that gold is in a bubble.
From MarketWatch
Prosecutors must first persuade a judge in a special pretrial hearing that a defendant didn’t kill in legitimate self-defense—disproving a person’s claim of mortal fear.
In fact, the history of whaling on its own disproves the central point of “The Killing Age,” that guns were a sine qua non for the making of the modern world.
Demonstrate that their conspiracy theory is, say, disproved by the law of gravity, and they will conclude … that Sir Isaac Newton was “in on it” too.
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