How to Use refutation in a Sentence

refutation

noun

• The most recent refutation of that promise comes in the area of trade.
  — Noah C. Gould, National Review, 11 Oct. 2021
• The truth of those claims and refutations will be further sought in the courtroom.
  — Jerome Groopman, The New York Review of Books, 9 May 2019
• Some of your essays seem like a refutation of that idea.
  — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 13 Apr. 2022
• Meller’s team intends to publish a refutation of Krause and Gebhard’s study.
  — Erin O'Hare, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Sep. 2020
• The road to a full proof — or refutation — of string universality is long.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 Feb. 2015
• Is this parody or a refutation of the premise that art replicates the visible?
  — Karen Wilkin, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2022
• Calm refutation is more scientific, and after all that's what counts in the end.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2013
• This perception is not new, but there’s a sharper edge now to Amazon’s refutations of these claims.
  — Shira Ovide, latimes.com, 11 July 2019
• To Lieberman, the 2016 study was not a refutation but a confirmation.
  — Ben Guarino, chicagotribune.com, 9 July 2017
• So far the British monarchy, one of the last vestiges of the country’s feudal system, has proved a splendid refutation of Marxism.
  — The Economist, 14 Jan. 2020
• Wearing a bra in public is my small refutation of the myth of the motherly aesthetic.
  — Jamilah Lemieux, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2021
• The Rise of Skywalker is not just a thematic refutation of what came before.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 20 Dec. 2019
• Life on the prairie is a refutation of entitlement culture.
  — Bill Heavey, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2022
• Because the scorpion can't change its nature — but then again, what has this entire series been if not a refutation of that notion?
  — Kat Rosenfield, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2022
• Zombies are a toothy refutation of happy endings, though not always of funny ones.
  — Noah Berlatsky, The Verge, 5 Dec. 2018
• The authors offer an eloquent and fact-filled refutation to the Reagans of the world who see untamed nature as a blank space on the map that cries out to be developed for human uses.
  — Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2022
• For all the talk that the 2022 elections were a nationwide refutation of election denialism, the attacks against our elections and our democracy are far from over.
  — Mallory McMorrow, CNN, 7 Dec. 2022
• Critics seized on the moment as a refutation of the argument from Cohn and others that the tax package’s benefits will trickle down to a broad base of Americans.
  — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2017
• So far, the model has resisted all attempts at refutation.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2016
• Every American Girl has the same problems to overcome, and that’s a clear refutation of a progressivist view of history.
  — Vulture, 26 July 2023
• In fact, Durocher’s 51-year career as a player and manager was an emphatic refutation of his famous words.
  — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2017
• But the resurgence of the industry is a refutation of those who predicted that the post-crisis regulations would hamstring banks and damp the economy.
  — Peter Eavis, New York Times, 22 June 2018
• And the larger conversation the premiere is engaging in opens up all sorts of arguments and refutations.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2020
• Bloomberg has been able to buy enough ads to make his arguments without significant refutation.
  — Rick Klein, ABC News, 19 Feb. 2020
• Could some observations from a faraway galaxy add up to a refutation of string theory?
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2020
• So far, the Standard Model has resisted all attempts at refutation.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2016
• The appellate court ruling in Snyder’s case provides a point-by-point refutation of Snyder’s attempt to have his two convictions overturned.
  — Amy Lavalley, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2023
• The first is that experts refuted it shortly after it was published — but the general reading public has paid no attention to the refutation.
  — Time Staff, Time, 26 Sep. 2017
• The Oppo merger also feels like a refutation of the original OnePlus strategy.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2022
• American Jews are a living refutation of the American Libel.
  — Dennis Prager, National Review, 3 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024