disproved
Example Sentences
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The claim can never be disproved because its meaning isn’t fixed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
The Fellowship’s religious claims are never disproved, history suggests, just yet to be proved.
From Salon ● May 29, 2026
Demonstrate that their conspiracy theory is, say, disproved by the law of gravity, and they will conclude … that Sir Isaac Newton was “in on it” too.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2025
It had previously been thought that vaccinating children against chickenpox would cause a problematic rise in shingles, but a recent long-term study from the US disproved that theory.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2025
His “Cosmic Mystery” was disproved entirely by the much later discoveries of the planets Uranus, Neptune and Pluto—there are no additional platonic solids' that would determine their distances from the sun.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
