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
Deutsche Bank analyst Melissa Weathers wrote recently that investors were likely exercising more caution “given past memory bust cycles,” adding that those fears are “difficult to disprove in the near term.”
From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026
Lowry immediately landed a job directing his first museum, taking the gig in part “to disprove my father telling me there were no jobs in Islamic art.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
FBI data alone cannot prove or disprove the claim that crime is at a 125-year low because, as he points out, it only started publishing statistics in 1930, and only consistently after 1960.
From BBC • Feb. 23, 2026
Agents would develop one, then simply drop it, or fail to corroborate it or to conclusively disprove it.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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