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- verb Present participle of
disprove .
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Examples
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Using an absolute to attempt and prove a point will only serve in disproving your own argument cch harped on.
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Using an absolute to attempt and prove a point will only serve in disproving your own argument cch harped on.
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Of course, no one questioned that story because no one has a political or emotional stake in disproving atrocities by insurgents.
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Swank plays a former Christian missionary who lost her faith after her family was tragically killed, and has since become a world renowned expert in disproving religious phenomena.
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In that book, as is often forgotten, he tried to vindicate deism against atheism, and certainly succeeded in disproving Burke's crude contention that this was a distinction without a difference.
Reactionary Prophet 2004
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In that book, as is often forgotten, he tried to vindicate deism against atheism, and certainly succeeded in disproving Burke's crude contention that this was a distinction without a difference.
Reactionary Prophet 2004
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We’ve done exactly as much research on disproving that my head is the center of the universe as we have in disproving human intelligence is the result of natural forces.
Beckwith on ID 2008
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We’ve done exactly as much research on disproving that my head is the center of the universe as we have in disproving human intelligence is the result of natural forces.
Beckwith on ID 2008
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Longhorn, it goes back to the idea of disproving that all crows are black.
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But more aptly that would be "disproving" anyway, passing a test gives either a falsification or a quantifiable uncertainty but no "proof".
Scientists Come to a Conclusion: Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs | Universe Today 2010
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