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Disproved meaning
simple past and past participle of disprove
Using Disproved
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of disprove
- In the example corpus, disproved often appears in combinations such as: disproved the, or disproved, been disproved.
Context around Disproved
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 10 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Disproved
- In this selection, "disproved" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, thoroughly, strongly, repeatedly, conservatives, lindell and old stand out and add context to how "disproved" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include but luke disproved this theory and claimed it disproved her argument. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "disproved" sits close to words such as abducting, accentuate and accomplishes, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with disproved
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Do you feel time has disproved those criticisms? (8 words)
The Revolutionary Guards released footage they said disproved the US claims. (11 words)
Although that reasoning was later disproved, the name of Atlanta stuck regardless. (12 words)
One might assume that they miss the community, the meal plan or the invigorating rivalries, but the minute last year’s parents pulled out white T-shirts with “Fifty, flirty and single!” written on them in pen, that assumption was strongly disproved. (42 words)
Skeptics argue that persistently low interest rates and consistent demand for domestic bonds in the past decade of rising debt have disproved old economic assumptions and have instead shown that extraordinarily high levels of federal debt do not matter. (39 words)
It was thought that removing community circulation by vaccinating children would cause a problematic rise in shingles for as long as 20 years, but a recent long-term study from the US disproved that theory. (35 words)
Do you feel time has disproved those criticisms? (8 words)
Example sentences (20)
Although that reasoning was later disproved, the name of Atlanta stuck regardless.
It was thought that removing community circulation by vaccinating children would cause a problematic rise in shingles for as long as 20 years, but a recent long-term study from the US disproved that theory.
One might assume that they miss the community, the meal plan or the invigorating rivalries, but the minute last year’s parents pulled out white T-shirts with “Fifty, flirty and single!” written on them in pen, that assumption was strongly disproved.
The West also believed itself to be behind Russia's military technology, Tarien added, but the full-scale invasion has disproved this.
Thirdly, he muzzled Canadian government scientists, paid by taxpayers, so that results of their work which conflicted with or disproved Conservatives’ beliefs were either supressed or distorted to support Conservative Party propaganda.
When King first heard about it, he was skeptical about yet another film about national parks, but watching “Out There” thoroughly disproved those notions.
Zeidman took the challenge and claims that, because he thoroughly disproved Lindell's conspiracy theory, the far-right MyPillow CEO owes him the prize.
Asked about her embarrassing gaffe in forgetting the name of Mexico’s president, she had to fend off Buttigieg, who claimed it disproved her argument that Washington has prepared her to be president.
Do you feel time has disproved those criticisms?
Studies have repeatedly disproved the idea that immigration is linked to diseases — and the current outbreak has nothing to do with that.
As is the case with all of the stories mentioned above, the passage of time has definitively disproved it.
Just 26% of U.S. adults correctly classified all five factual statements as factual – that is, something capable of being proved or disproved by objective evidence.
Skeptics argue that persistently low interest rates and consistent demand for domestic bonds in the past decade of rising debt have disproved old economic assumptions and have instead shown that extraordinarily high levels of federal debt do not matter.
The Revolutionary Guards released footage they said disproved the US claims.
To be fair, their position was disproved not intellectually but on the battlefield.
Unfortunately, Hurricane Irma turned out to be the storm that disproved the safety of the location.
If there's anyone that loves to engage in revisionist history, it's the man who has repeatedly insisted the crowd size at his inauguration was larger than that of his predecessors — which math disproved.
In reality, the 23 sexual abuse charges he faced have been stayed, which means the case will not go ahead but the allegations have not been disproved.
It had always been viewed that in order to become one with the Force, you must pass onto the next life, but Luke disproved this theory.
It’s not like this kind of grandiose, easily-disproved claim is new, though.
Common combinations with disproved
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- disproved the 8×
- or disproved 7×
- been disproved 7×
- nor disproved 6×
- disproved by 5×
- was disproved 4×
- disproved in 3×
- has disproved 2×
- disproved this 2×
- thoroughly disproved 2×