as in rebuttal
something (as an argument) that serves to disprove
these are hard scientific facts against which there can be no reasonable refutation
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Recent Examples of refutation
By this point, there’s no need to rehash its difficult production: What matters is what’s on the screen, a tale of how a wayward son (Al Pacino) discovers that his mild refutations of his family’s dark business are ultimately just talk.
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Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
But not a refutation of the broader bull case just yet.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 22 Feb. 2025
But The Dry Season is anything but a refutation of her earlier work.
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2025
Is the month-long surge in Treasury yields a confirmation, a refutation, or a threat, to the prevailing soft-economic-landing outlook?
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2024
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Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
But not a refutation of the broader bull case just yet.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 22 Feb. 2025
But The Dry Season is anything but a refutation of her earlier work.
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2025
Is the month-long surge in Treasury yields a confirmation, a refutation, or a threat, to the prevailing soft-economic-landing outlook?
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for refutation
Noun
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Alessi also highlighted that Welcher had amended his report after the trial began — leaving the defense little room for a robust rebuttal of the material — and brought up that Aperture LLC will make nearly $400,000 off the case, for the time of the company’s experts and their analysis and testing.—
Flint McColgan,
Boston Herald,
28 May 2025
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But the strongest rebuttal to Hegseth’s argument is military history itself.—
John Blake,
CNN Money,
26 May 2025
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This is a closed system in which nothing can serve as disproof.—
Gershom Gorenberg,
The Atlantic,
30 May 2025
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The disproof of the telescope conjecture is like that.—
Kevin Hartnett,
Quanta Magazine,
22 Aug. 2023
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“Refutation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/refutation. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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