The phrase "refute a statement" is correct and commonly used in written English
It means to prove a statement to be false or incorrect. Example: The scientist was able to refute the theory that the earth was flat by presenting evidence from recent space missions.
Hint to Alan Reynolds: check which table you're looking at before claiming that Congressional Budget Office data refute a statement you don't like.
Mr. Gleason referred to a news conference he had held last week in which he sought to refute a statement by the authorities that Ms. Gristina had used underage prostitutes in the brothel.
Networking, he added, has got a bad name recently, because sometimes the word is used as a cover for dating services-as an example, Mr. Becker said he called up a WPLJ disc jockey, Jim Kerr, to refute a statement made on the air to that effect.
(Obama called him a jackass in a famous hot mic incident). Jill Dobson, then a Fox News correspondent, grouped Kanye West with other "gangsta" rappers like Lil Wayne and Jay-Z, calling him sarcastically "the ultimate gentleman, as Taylor Swift knows" to refute a statement Common made about how Obama was helping elevate rap music.
Watson refuted a statement from Enron Chief Financial Officer Jeff McMahon that Dynegy should not have been surprised by a Nov. 19 filing because he was given advance copies, dismissing that as a misrepresentation of events.
Finally, upper-level courses may have students read primary literature or interpret data that either support or refute a given statement related to this core idea.
Refutation: Statements that weaken or refute a counterargument.
Ken Burns, the documentary filmmaker, and Henry Louis Gates Jr., the literary historian, refute a presidential candidate's charged statements on race.
The bombshell revelation refutes an April 5 statement Trump made aboard Air Force One, when he told the press he had no knowledge that Cohen had paid off Daniels.
Turner, however, was demonstratively refuted in a statement read by the woman he victimized.
This was refuted in a statement released on Blackburn's website on 9 April, in which the club said Shaw had the "complete backing and support" of the owners.
