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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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