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refuting - definition and meaning
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And so Kntotts says: "That boy is a good boy" in refuting the accusation of homosexuality.
Sanford accused of smear campaign against Bauer 2009
Police Chief and Vietnam veteran Bill Taylor also contributed tremendous information to assist in refuting the aspects of Mr. Chance's story.
Gilbert Chance EXPOSED 2010
Just because you risk being found spuriously guilty by association, it does not follow that you have a stake in refuting the guilt of those (false) associates, anymore than libertarians need either defend McVeigh or try to claim he was not a libertarian.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Timothy McVeigh Was No Libertarian: The Fallacy of Conflating Two Very Different Types of “Anti-Government” Movements 2010
Edwards knows Obama is too far left, too tax hungry, can't stand up to why he voted "present" one hundred times, can't make decisions as in refuting Wright and Ayers, has contributor skeletons and on and on.
Edwards again rules out VP job 2008
The danger in refuting anti-materialism is in swinging to the other extreme, embracing consumerism and fabulist contrivance with a mindless Tom Wolfean "Yippee!"
Material Girl 2003
The danger in refuting anti-materialism is in swinging to the other extreme, embracing consumerism and fabulist contrivance with a mindless Tom Wolfean "Yippee!"
Material Girl 2003
It was reported to the authorities that he had a job feeding chickens and he had great difficulty in refuting this.
The Road to Wigan Pier 1937
Trichet, who will also be in Davos, spent the end of his eight-year term refuting sceptics such as Harvard University professor Martin Feldstein, who argued the euro is flawed and may splinter.
BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2012
Trichet, who will also be in Davos, spent the end of his eight-year term refuting sceptics such as Harvard University professor Martin Feldstein, who argued the euro is flawed and may splinter.
BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2012
Instead of spinning wheels in refuting the “libertarian” lunacy, over and over again, with no responses but canned “answers,” tell them, “OK, I’ll pretend to bite: name one current society that operates according to ‘libertarian’ principles.”
Matthew Yglesias » Libertarian Economist Denounces Rescue Package, Admits He Doesn’t Know What He’s Talking About 2009
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