as in to refute
to prove to be false
Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe disproved any lingering notions that the earth is flat
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Participants receive $5,000 to use for experimentation to prove — or disprove — their ideas.
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Worth Sparkman, Axios, 17 Sep. 2024
The claims have prompted local officials to come out and disprove these reports, but some Republicans have continued to echo these claims.
—Scott Wartman, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2024
In fact, the way in which Block was able to disprove so many of the bonkers claims Trump’s team threw at him through forensic accounting and more than a little common sense shows our election system is actually pretty resilient when put to the test.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 20 Sep. 2024
For example, Jim Crow-era geography teaching manuals excised from maps any detail that tended to disprove the history of a superior white race.
—Emmanuel Iduma, ARTnews.com, 16 Sep. 2024
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Worth Sparkman, Axios, 17 Sep. 2024
The claims have prompted local officials to come out and disprove these reports, but some Republicans have continued to echo these claims.
—Scott Wartman, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2024
In fact, the way in which Block was able to disprove so many of the bonkers claims Trump’s team threw at him through forensic accounting and more than a little common sense shows our election system is actually pretty resilient when put to the test.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 20 Sep. 2024
For example, Jim Crow-era geography teaching manuals excised from maps any detail that tended to disprove the history of a superior white race.
—Emmanuel Iduma, ARTnews.com, 16 Sep. 2024
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“Disprove.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disprove. Accessed 4 Nov. 2024.
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