disprove

verb

(ˌ)dis-ˈprüv How to pronounce disprove (audio)
Definition of disprovenext
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 And it’s left to the person it’s aimed at to disprove the association — after a bell has been rung that cannot be unrung. — Gary Grasso, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2026 Consciousness is uniquely and notoriously challenging to define, much less to conclusively affirm or disprove the presence of. — Rob Toews, Forbes.com, 22 June 2026 The timing of the declaration comes two weeks after OpenAI publicized one of its AI models as having disproved an 80-year-old mathematical conjecture in geometry. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 2 June 2026 And more recently, a new general-purpose AI system from OpenAI disproved an important conjecture in combinatorial geometry. — Benjamin Skuse, IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for disprove
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  • Four fisher people from Indonesia’s Pari Island filed a legal complaint in 2023 against the Swiss construction company Holcim, which refutes their assertion that its climate change-causing emissions threaten their homes and livelihoods.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 July 2026
  • Wainger also refuted the assertion that Pennel had expected to be arrested.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2026
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