disprove

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Braun argued that the portrayal of his client drinking and racing wasn’t supported by the facts and that there was no evidence to disprove his client’s testimony that he was traveling at 55 mph.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

The PGA of America has responded by setting up the course in a manner which aimed to disprove that.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

I go back to, and this is the conversation I have internally as well, the hardest thing to disprove is a negative.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

Adobe’s fiscal first-quarter results largely cleared Wall Street’s bar, but its modest earnings beat for the period wasn’t enough to disprove the narrative around artificial-intelligence disruption that’s weighed on software stocks.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 12, 2026

In 1902, Darbishire launched a fresh volley of experiments on mice, hoping to disprove Mendel’s hypothesis once and for all.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee