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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Proving and disproving
acid test
actions speak louder than wordsidiom
anti-sexist
attest
authenticate
demonstrable
demonstrably
demonstration of something
dispel
disprove
non-documentary
non-evidence
probatory
proof positive
provability
verification
verify
vindicate
vindication
vindicative

Examples of disproved

disproved

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

It has disproved the notion that elderly patients cannot understand a philosophical concept such as existential well-being.
In the end it could neither be proved nor disproved.
This is an existence statement which can only be disproved if we fail to find a single supporting case.
This possibility can neither be proved nor disproved, as to our knowledge, no data are available for goldfish.
In so doing, they have disproved such false ideas as spontaneous generation while enhancing the correct notion of a divine purposeful creation.
However, given the absence of clear and established norms, at present this cannot be proved or disproved conclusively.
If this hypothesis was not entirely disproved, what transpired in the wake of the lifting of prohibition was inevitably more complex.
It was argued here that the fear dysfunction accounts, as they are currently specified, have been effectively disproved.
The latter assumption is purely speculative and can neither be proved nor disproved at present.
However, there is no clear pattern and thus the hypothesis stated was neither confirmed nor disproved by the results of this literature review.
It proceeds from the evidence to the hypothesis, the latter being proved or disproved by the evidence.
Older fears of a negative impact on recurrence risk or cancer detection after breast reconstruction have been disproved.
Indeed, the lack of an effect of context per se on on-line control would seem to be disproved by these studies.
Instead, all possible models under operating conditions that are not disproved are constructed and simulated.
Middendorff disproved such a view: while steppes came into being due to dryness, tundra came into existence because of the lack of warmth.
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