disprove
Example Sentences
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The main effect of her suit was that Lake was ordered to pay $33,000 to the witnesses who helped disprove Lake’s false claims in court.
From Salon
The challenge, he added, is that it is almost “impossible to disprove a negative,” or convince investors that “AI isn’t going to disrupt this business.”
In these investigations, the commission acts as both prosecutor and judge—accusing companies of noncompliance under a broad, ambiguous law, then deciding if companies’ answers are enough to disprove the allegations.
Software vendors are now in the challenging position of having to disprove a negative.
Retail investors have emerged in the past five years as a powerful force that, en masse, has disproved investment disciplines like “Buy low and sell high.”
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
