Refute

//ɹɪˈfjuːt//

"Refute" in a Sentence (12 examples)

The witnesses were able to refute the false testimony of the suspect.

The scientific truth of evolution is so overwhelmingly established, that it is virtually impossible to refute.

I don't want to refute this outworn idea.

The ideologist of nuclear devastation Bertran Rassel promises to refute (once again) materialsm with his newest ideas about the language structure.

I won't try to refute your theses.

Then, you can refute it.

One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.

Nobody can refute that fact.

Tom was unable to refute Mary's arguments.

Do you have an objection to the source, or a relevant piece of evidence to refute the claim?

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After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, "I refute it thus."

A spokesperson for VARS Technology said: “We completely refute the suggestion that our market-leading ANPR system is unreliable".

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