disprove
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It seemed to disprove the understanding that AI has been hurting mostly younger employees and those in entry-level jobs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026
Third, by demanding that plaintiffs disentangle race from politics, the court asks them to disprove the very structural reality that social network discrimination reveals.
From Slate ● May 22, 2026
One historian on the Bergier Commission was permitted, briefly, to look at some of the Mengele files in 1999, and concluded that it was impossible to prove or disprove his presence on Swiss territory.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
“We see this cyclical caution from investors as prudent given past memory bust cycles, and acknowledge that the bear case is difficult to disprove in the near-term,” Weathers writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
I saw no advantage in calling witnesses to tty' to disprove something that was incontrovertible.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
For a company that prides itself on entering categories late and defining them, Apple’s AI execution has been the exception that disproves the rule.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 21, 2026
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.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
Sala, has denied the sexual assault allegation in comments to the media, saying he has proof that disproves the sheriff’s claim.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025
One of his new songs disproves that theory.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2024
Assoil′zie, in Scots law, to absolve the accused on the grounds that the evidence disproves or does not establish the charge.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party just disproved one of the oldest truisms in the country’s politics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
Retail investors have emerged in the past five years as a powerful force that, en masse, has disproved investment disciplines like “Buy low and sell high.”
From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026
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.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2025
Both he and Siobhain McDonagh, a Labour MP who appeared on BBC's Politics Live on Thursday, raised comments by a former HR manager, Jane Wayper - which, they said, disproved the BBC News's story.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2025
Fossils, for example, and whether their existence disproved the Book of Genesis; Brother Mendel’s experiments on the sexual reproduction of the sweet pea; the fallacy of laudable pus.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
"Ryanair looks forward to disproving these false CMA claims during this bogus investigation," it added.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
In my clinical practice, I’ve learned that the key isn’t just disproving individual claims about Tylenol, autism, or vaccines—it’s explaining how to think about medical evidence.
From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2025
Brawn and co-author Henry Pollock, who did postdoctoral research in NRES, already showed that both temperate and tropical birds can withstand temperature extremes, disproving the climate variability hypothesis across latitudes.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 2024
Sekanjako, who had been in financial difficulty, believed FedEx had not paid him properly despite records later disproving his perception.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2023
Some were even conducting studies aimed at disproving Gartler’s findings.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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