Used in a Sentence

refuting

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for refuting.

Editorial note

Are you refuting that fact, or are you not refuting that fact?

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

(transitive) To prove (something) to be false or incorrect.

Meaning at a glance

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

verb

(transitive) To prove (something) to be false or incorrect.

verb

(transitive, proscribed) To deny the truth or correctness of (something); to reject or disagree with an accusation.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for refuting.

Example sentences

1

Are you refuting that fact, or are you not refuting that fact?

2

He said A means B, but you're refuting B means A.

3

There was no reason that it needed to be said, as no one claimed the thing he is refuting.

4

There have been entire schools of thought based on verification of hypotheses, and entire movements based on refuting those schools.

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That post is refuting an incorrect assumption of the parent post - that people only buy watches to tell time.

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It could be a reaction to the funding research aimed at refuting man-made global warming gets.

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But whether you're accessing it through a browser or native interface the web has won, there is no refuting that.

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Some say that materialism is refuting itself, in the sense that proving it true dissolves any kind of truth into non-sense.

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Conclusively refuting that allegation would have significantly harmed the prosecution's case, knocking out one of the predicates for the conspiracy charge.

10

The only sources you have refuting reports that ran in the mainstream media about Wikileaks funneling information to Belarus is Wikileaks itself?

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This is my sentiment exactly, and why I posted the original article and read the refuting paper [0].

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As for the rest of your comment it doesn't help advancing or refuting the points explained above so they are a little bit out of place.

Quote examples

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The Quote Investigator is extremely conservative in refuting bogus quotes; when they say "probably not", they mean "hell freezes over if".

2

Part of the therapy is identifying and refuting negative thoughts like, "You're worthless!" Well, if other people are telling you that you're worthless, in one way or another, then it has the same effect.

3

This exact attitude, assuming that someone who doesn't drink beer will be a detriment in the workplace, is the kind of thing this article is refuting; that if you use enough of these "culture fit" markers, then you will simply wind up picking a team with very little real diversity, which could cause real problems in the long run.

Proper noun examples

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Refuting this claim is easy: all you have to do is show a dozen or two cases of people who came away from TED changed in a some permenant and actionable way.

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use refuting in a sentence?

Are you refuting that fact, or are you not refuting that fact?

What does refuting mean?

(transitive) To prove (something) to be false or incorrect.

What part of speech is refuting?

refuting is commonly used as verb.