refutation

Examples of refuted

refuted

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

When mistakes are discovered in proofs, the theorems themselves are usually not refuted.
Complementarity is also refuted when we test access to care for the elderly with a better definition of medical need : community deaths.
The possibility of parasite-induced host mortality occurring is therefore not refuted.
The classical interpretation is refuted by some firsthand researchers in the field.
In addition, the often cited theory that the defect is due to abnormal closure of the pleuroperitoneal canal was refuted.
Its rich discussions cannot be ignored or views easily refuted.
The 2-16% marked termites found in non-dye trenches clearly refuted his rationale.
The selection criterion is the requirement of an unambiguous formulation that makes clear under what conditions the hypothesis would be refuted.
The first two predictions can only be verified or refuted over a long period of time.
It is just a theory, but it has not yet been 'refuted', and it certainly colors our way of thinking.
In this careful empirical study she has refuted some of the most negative truisms repeated about endowments.
To many, experimental talk of souls seemed to smack of precisely that atheism which these natural philosophers claimed to have refuted.
Nonetheless, concerns about mammography-induced cancers currently have neither been validated nor refuted in studies concerning actual screening populations of premenopausal women.
Although this finding has been abnegated as being insignificant, it cannot be refuted or overlooked.
It can, however, be refuted indirectly via the corollary hypothesis that dreaming is not controlled by forebrain mechanisms.
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