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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
refute .
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Examples
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Crain refutes charges that he sought to keep Mehlman out of print.
03/22/2005 2005
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And for Castro, the name refutes other long-held beliefs that the Stonewall demonstrators were all white gay men.
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And for Castro, the name refutes other long-held beliefs that the Stonewall demonstrators were all white gay men.
Long Island Press 2009
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The use of "conspiracy theory" as a derogatory term, as an epithet almost, is something the government propagandists have perfected over the decades and it's a useful tool for eliminating articulate dissent and the use of that term refutes information that might be inconvenient for policy agenda. "
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If anything this picture and it's title refutes the notion of God.
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And when a person with a male screen name refutes another male, it's fine, but if 'he' is later revealed to be female, the yelping is astounding.
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And when a person with a male screen name refutes another male, it's fine, but if 'he' is later revealed to be female, the yelping is astounding.
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Secondly the grassroots efforts of Obama, which of course has led to major $$$$ kind of refutes the meme of his not going to the local level, doesnt it?
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| Reply | Permalink as we said in the post, this is the most recent poll we could find that looks at the demographic breakdowns in the key states in a fine-grained enough way. and nowhere did we say that it "refutes" the conclusion in today's Q poll -- the opposite, in fact
Is Hillary Outperforming Obama Against McCain Among Working Class Voters In Key Swing States? 2009
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So here we see a denialist using a rejected idea of the early 1970s, which other people in his camp use as an example of bad climate science, as good science which "refutes" AGW.
Rabett Run EliRabett 2009
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