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Discover LudwigThe phrase "after being refuted" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a situation where an argument or claim has been proven false or invalid.
Example: "The theory lost credibility after being refuted by several leading scientists."
Alternatives: "after being disproven" or "after being challenged".
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Many theories get abandoned after being refuted by experiment, but if your new theory explains something that previous theories can't, it may be an important scientific advance.
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Are they being refuted convincingly?
The original idea that money had real effects because people were surprised by monetary shocks fell apart in the face of evidence of business cycle persistence; the real business cycle view that nominal shocks didn't actually matter after all was refuted by decisive evidence (pdf) that, in fact, it did.
"What we have found is that the original papers continue to be cited well after they have been refuted," he said.
For example, the migration and proliferation of papillary LRCs after renal IRI was refuted by other BrdU pulse-chase experiments that failed to observe similar events [67].
Newspaper speculation that the body belonged to Lydia Hart, who had disappeared, was refuted after she was found recovering in hospital after "a bit of a spree".
M. Rajičić concluded that it was between 1366 and 1371, as he believed Jovan Oliver to have held his lands at least to 1366, and based on that the Pčinja pomenik (memorial book) said that Dejan had died after Jovan Oliver (this is refuted by S. Mandić).
I seem to have fallen prey to the same mythology as a lot of the country after Katrina, because this notion was refuted long ago.
These arguments, which have been refuted time after time in court, are currently before a federal judge in Pennsylvania.
Mr. Boyce's script has a ruthless and magical tic -- after many of the episodes, the story is refuted on screen.
After the severity of his blood alcohol level was refuted, it is now unclear whether Bieber was in fact drag racing before being pulled over.
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