disproving in English
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Use "disproving" in a sentence
1. It does not dwell on disproving false doctrines.
2. Antonyms for Confirmatory include confuting, disproving, refuting, rebutting, disaffirming, antithetical, controverting, disconfirming, disagreeing and defending
3. Antonyms for Averring include denying, gainsaying, disclaiming, discrediting, disproving, forgetting, questioning, refuting, contradicting and disputing
4. Antonyms for Corroborating include confuting, disproving, refuting, rebutting, disaffirming, antithetical, controverting, disconfirming, disagreeing and defending
5. Antonyms for Corroborative include confuting, disproving, refuting, disagreeing, rebutting, negating, negative, opposing, conflicting and disaffirming
6. Synonyms for Confutation include disproof, rebuttal, refutation, disconfirmation, counterargument, disproval, reply, disproving, answer and counterstatement
7. Antonyms for Ascertaining include missing, overlooking, aiding, assisting, confusing, destroying, disproving, helping, ignoring and invalidating
8. Disproving Conspiracies A 1995 study by American psychologist John McHoskey attempted to provide an explanation for the difficulty of falsifying conspiracy theories
9. 1828 Friedrich Wöhler synthesizes urea, thereby establishing that organic compounds could be produced from inorganic starting materials, disproving the theory of vitalism.
10. Thus, it was proven convincingly that the lacteals did not terminate in the liver, thus disproving Galen's second idea: that the chyle flowed to the liver.
11. Their books have proved highly controversial, yet their detractors, rather than disproving the points made by their writers, have resorted to ad hominem attacks such as 'He is crazy.'
12. The purpose of this paper is to advance the nominalist view of universals by William of Ockham while disproving the realist claims made by John Duns Scotus and the Conceptualist views of Peter Abelard
13. Some contemporaries (including V.G. Bogoraz and M.P. Chekhov) considered that the teacher of Ancient Greek language and the inspector of the Taganrog gymnasium A.F. Dyakonov was a prototype of "the person in a case", others described the traits of character of Dyakonov disproving opinion of the first.
14. ‘The attraction of such cities as New York is the promise of Boundlessness, of the sky being the only limit to human ambition.’ ‘When the western frontier's apparent Boundlessness was revealed as only ostensible - when lines were measured and laid down across it, disproving its infiniteness - this escape route was cut off.’
15. "act of disproving or proving to be false," mid-15c., from Latin Confutationem (nominative confutatio), noun of action from past-participle stem of confutare "repress, check; disprove, restrain, silence," from assimilated form of com-, here probably an intensive prefix (see con-), + *futare "to beat," which is perhaps from PIE root *bhau-"to strike."
16. Confutation (n.) "act of disproving or proving to be false," mid-15c., from Latin Confutationem (nominative confutatio), noun of action from past-participle stem of confutare "repress, check; disprove, restrain, silence," from assimilated form of com-, here probably an intensive prefix (see con-), + *futare "to beat," which is perhaps from PIE root *bhau-"to strike."
17. The Alpinist, the mountaineering watch with the green dial introduced previously in “Every color has a reason.” If we delve into its history, we see that the Green Alpinist was first released in 1995, and even now, close to a quarter century later, its sales remain steady, disproving an old belief that Seiko watches with green dials do not sell well.