refutation
Use Refutation in a sentence
yʊˈteɪ noun
an act of refuting a statement, charge, etc.; disproof.
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| —n | |
| 1. | the act or process of refuting |
| 2. | something that refutes; disproof |
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Refutation
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
Any views on origins and purpose are mere postulates awaiting refutation based on developments in knowledge.
In the face of what a valid science would call a decisive refutation of their hypothesis, they react with: name change.
But there is a problem with the article's simple refutation re: water vapor being a potentially dominant player in the climate.
Scientific methodology depends upon publication and refutation.
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