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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Recent Examples of disprove
Needs teeth Reforms are being reversed not because data disproves the need, but because the politics now allow retreat.
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Hansel Alejandro Aguilar, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025
Skeptics claimed that the researcher did not factor in findings from the 1978 Shroud of Turin Research Project (STURP) that could disprove the theory of the cloth being artwork, such as a lack of pigment and the details of the blood stains, which are detectable with UV technology.
—Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
The earliest climate models made specific forecasts about global warming decades before those forecasts could be proved or disproved.
—Nadir Jeevanjee, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2025
None of this has been disproved, of course.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2025
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Further, research has not deeply examined Tylenol risks in young children, and many rigorous studies refute a link between vaccines and autism.—
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The debunked claim that vaccines are tied to autism stems from a 1998 study by British gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield in The Lancet, which has since been refuted by numerous studies.—
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“Disprove.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disprove. Accessed 27 Sep. 2025.
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