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verb

gainsay

to deny or contradict a fact or statement

In a sentence

Six example sentences with gainsay, each labelled with its topic.

  • Nobody could gainsay the measurement once four independent labs repeated it and published identical numbers within a month.

    Science

  • The minister tried to gainsay the attendance figure, but the transport authority had already published the turnstile counts.

    Politics

  • Few scholars now gainsay the dating of the manuscript, though the claim was ridiculed when it first appeared.

    History

  • Nobody on the panel could gainsay her scoring record, since the numbers were printed in every yearbook since 1998.

    Basketball

  • The auditors could not gainsay the cash figure, having counted the vault themselves on the last day of the year.

    Finance

  • The defence did not gainsay that the signature was genuine, arguing only that the document had been signed under a misunderstanding.

    Law

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