disprove

Develop a hypothesis, test the hypothesis and try to disprove it.

Some of it is easy to disprove on its surface, as when he opened by softening up Trump by pointing to what he says in an episode of “The View” from 2015 or 2016 where “Whoopi Goldberg gives you a big hug and a kiss. Joy Behar gives you a big hug. Barbara Walters gives you a big hug. They all loved you . . . And then you actually started winning in the polls, and then the machine started working towards you.”

Prosecutors, however, have insisted that new evidence does not disprove their case that the child died from injuries inflicted by her father.

The office’s analysis provided a different interpretation of the video than Beck and the Police Commission, arguing it did not disprove Proctor’s claim that Glenn was reaching for his partner’s weapon.

Incredibly, it once took a photograph of presidential candidate Gary Hart with Donna Rice, a young campaign worker, sitting on his lap, to disprove Hart’s denial that he was a “womanizer.”