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A trio of rulings on Thursday refute this smear.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

The assertion that Asian Americans and other nonwhite immigrants don’t “assimilate”—a freighted term, to be sure—is both easy and hard to refute.

From Slate ● May 26, 2026

If the allegations are false, he needs to refute each and every detail in thorough, incontrovertible fashion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

Ramaphosa tried to refute Trump's assertions and was backed up by John Steenhuisen, the white leader of the Democratic Alliance, which is part of the coalition government.

From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026

The philosophers of his day were unable to refute the paradox.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

"Our results have far-reaching implications. Firstly, it refutes the hypothesis that any organics found in fossils must result from contamination."

From Science Daily ● May 14, 2026

Outside of the Chagall exhibition in Moscow, former piano teacher Irina refutes the idea of trying to escape from the war.

From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026

On Tuesday, Dacre told the High Court he "utterly refutes" the "preposterous" allegations of unlawful newsgathering by journalists.

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026

Speetzen refutes that during an analyst call, saying the company’s marine segment has already gotten rid of underperforming brands, and that the remaining ones are gaining market share and generating strong cash flow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026

“I think not. Look how thin she is. Her weight refutes that accusation. “

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry

The U.S. refuted that claim, with Centcom saying “Iran does not control the strait. Traffic is flowing,” in a social-media post Sunday.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026

Cento refuted the claims made in the complaint and will seek dismissal of the lawsuit in court, a company spokesperson told The Times on Monday.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

Then the team assessed how strongly the evidence supported or refuted each assumption.

From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026

Brondby's communications director Soren Hanghoj refuted Barbarez's claim and said the player's omission was a "club decision".

From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026

No, he said Darin was in the death cells in Bekkar and that the prison provided Blackcliff’s security backup, all of which Veturius has just refuted.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

The conflict has functioned as an accelerated stress test, compressing years of operational learning into months and validating or refuting assumptions about real-world system performance.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026

General Medical Center issued a statement on Thursday refuting reports that federal authorities had carried out enforcement operations at the downtown trauma center.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2025

As the news spread, several media channels falsely accused Iqbal of being a terrorist, following which the police put out a statement refuting the claim.

From BBC ● May 25, 2025

His brother confirmed in an interview with the city’s local station WGN-TV that he is a White Sox fan, refuting early heresy claiming he roots for the Cubs, aka Satan’s Stickballers.

From Salon ● May 10, 2025

The word ‘fact’ tells us very little about the establishing and refuting of facts.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton