refute

In a sentence

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

• A single careful replication was enough to refute the claim that the particle decayed faster in cold conditions.

  Science

• Dated shipping records refute the old idea that the port stood empty for the whole of that decade.

  History

• Three decades of tax data refute the assumption that the rate change drove those companies out of the country.

  Economics

• Popper held that one black swan is enough to refute the claim that every swan is white, however many white ones came first.

  Philosophy

• The tracking data refuted the story that the center could not defend the pick and roll, showing him ahead on nearly every switch.

  Basketball

• Later experiments refuted the idea that memory works like a recording, since subjects confidently recalled events that never occurred.

  Psychology

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More Academic words

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