prove false
Example Sentences
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The risk to the strategy—and it is hard to overstate it—is that stocks will plummet should reports of peace prove false.
From Barron's ● Apr. 1, 2026
He was so good at ideas mixed with drama that he could create a drama which would prove false the notion that class should matter or language or a person’s ability with either.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2021
Other senators noted that the argument for treating the issue as a matter of juvenile misbehavior does not hold if Kavanaugh’s current denials prove false.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2018
There is almost always a reason to be nervous, but the vast majority prove false.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2017
Suppose he wished to plunge her into the same abyss that had engulfed so many others? suppose the reports concerning him were true, and he should prove false, terribly, fiendishly false?
From A Twofold Life by Hillern, Wilhelmine von
