Used in a Sentence

disproving

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for disproving.

Editorial note

You've done nothing here but repeat plainly ignorant right wing propaganda that's not even smart enough to require disproving.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

(transitive) To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of disproving gathered in one view.

verb

(transitive) To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for disproving.

Example sentences

1

You've done nothing here but repeat plainly ignorant right wing propaganda that's not even smart enough to require disproving.

2

Three, an attempt at disproving racist forces that wish to deny your intelligence, creative spark, and potential.

3

No, scientific progress comes from empirically chasing down and disproving false intuitions so that only the few true ones remain.

4

If so, does this have any ramifications on proving or disproving any particular quantum theories?

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Very rarely does a slam dunk case appear totally disproving one particular explanatory narrative.

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Author freely acknowledges this only might be the case for programming, more or less disproving the implication given by their article title.

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Disproving/invalidating the LTV does no more disprove the claims underlying Marx political ideology than disproving one meterological model would be sufficient to say I'm wrong if I say it'll rain tomorrow.

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Experiments are still worth doing because, just as an untestable theory is worthless, so too is a theory that nobody bothers to try disproving.

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Truth is though, that over the last few years more and more studies are disproving[0] the connection of saturated fat with obesity and heart disease.

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I concur it somewhat lends to Theranos' credibility that no competitor is disproving their accuracy.

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The one graph he picked is the one for global sea ice area, and argues it only shows modest declines disproving climate scientists and Al Gore.

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Although I don't know how one would go about proving or disproving if this is asymptotically better or just a (substantial) constant-factor speedup.

Quote examples

1

I was thinking of "if this paper is a contribution to eventually proving/disproving P=NP...", but failed to express that.

2

You're not disproving my point if you have to invent a use case where C is crippled to the point that Javascript is only "practically the same".

3

But okay, part of the attraction of React could be summed up as "better performance than Angular on complex applications", and I guess a benchmark proving (or disproving) that would be nice to have.

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Every time it comes up someone does way too much work disproving the arguments about "its too expensive" or "its not enough" and then they shut up until the next batch of naysayers comes along.

Proper noun examples

1

Disproving idealism by assuming a god's eye view doesn't warrant a QED.

2

Disproving what he said would make him wrong.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use disproving in a sentence?

You've done nothing here but repeat plainly ignorant right wing propaganda that's not even smart enough to require disproving.

What does disproving mean?

(transitive) To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute.

What part of speech is disproving?

disproving is commonly used as verb.