Sentence examples for refuting something from inspiring English sources
On Wednesday, the White House helped set the news agenda by refuting something they didn't think should have been in the news in the first place.
"I feel like the ability to refute something is not that incredibly difficult.
[Update 7/13: SoundCloud has clumsily attempted to refute this article by issuing a statement to Variety saying our post contains "extensive inaccuracies", yet its supposed 'corrections' simply repeat what we did publish, and refute something we didn't publish.
I knew it would be impossible to refute something told to him by a trusted mentor in our allotted time, so I connected him with a scientist friend who had made an academia-to-industry move 2 years earlier.
The concern trolls ― who I coined "Google Search Avengers" ― were some of the worst because they were always able to dig up a convenient "fact" in order to refute something I said or was doing.
The pamphlet she gave me about the risks of abortion mentioned breast cancer, a link the National Cancer Institute has refuted, and something called post-abortion syndrome, for which the American Psychological Association, among others, says there is no evidence.
In this case, he said, "they are squealing extra loud on something they have no way of refuting".
To rebut is to contest or deny something; to refute is to prove that it's wrong.
The Reputation Economy authors say: If you are accused of something false that you can objectively and unequivocally prove false, consider a public response directly refuting the allegation.
But clearly it needs refuting.
