as in overturning
to prove to be false
theories which will eventually be confirmed or confuted by experience
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as in refuting
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Verb
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Hall ended up refuting his own hypothesis.—
Dhruv Khullar,
The New Yorker,
6 Jan. 2025 -
Two people aim to jointly and with intensity deliberate with each other, testing each other, refuting each other at times, and otherwise pursuing an in-depth cross-examining dialogue.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
4 Jan. 2025
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Such academic collaborations were not contradictory to the North Korean credo of Juche (self-reliance) but rather a means of furthering the resilience capacity of the country’s ecological system which inherently transcends borders.—
Saleem H. Ali,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
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The authors noted that both these decreases initially seemed contradictory, as school shootings have increased in the past 25 years.—
Lucia I Suarez Sang,
CBS News,
7 July 2025
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“Confuting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/confuting. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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