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After UK police had refuted the false information he had shared, Mr Asif deleted the posts and issued an apology on Channel3now for sharing the news, police said.

From BBC • Aug. 26, 2024

His family had refuted the defection claims, filing a lawsuit calling for the disclosure of government records.

From Reuters • Jun. 29, 2022

Bishop William T. McGrattan, the vice president of the Canadian Conference of Bishops, said Friday afternoon that Canadian bishops had refuted the doctrine, and in 2016 offered a pastoral letter denouncing it.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2022

And Leland Keyser is a high school friend of Ford's who Kavanaugh claimed had refuted Ford's story, even though this is not precisely accurate.

From Salon • Sep. 30, 2018

"I remember," I replied, "that that is what you always used to say; but I thought I had refuted you over and over again."

From The Meaning of Good—A Dialogue by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)