rebut
verb (used with object)
to refute by evidence or argument.
rebuttable
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a word derived from
rebut.
Example Sentences
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“A contract business owned by man from Pakistan receives the rebuttable presumption,” he wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
McQuade noted that “the Supreme Court said that communications between the president and vice president are presumptively official conduct, subject to a rebuttable presumption by the prosecution.”
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2024
“It’s problematic in terms of just continuing to add rebuttable presumptions to workers’ comp law when you don’t really need it and Cal/OSHA is already moving to address the problem.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024
In Monday’s letter, attorney Jordan Siev, who represents Washington owner Dan Snyder, wrote on behalf of the team that the committee’s letter “sets forth easily and fully rebuttable allegations.”
From Washington Times ● Apr. 18, 2022
Scarcely by a taunt so readily rebuttable will anti-Utilitarians be excited to speedier apprehension of the nature of the lien which corporate self-interest is presumed to have upon individual self-devotion.
From Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by William Thomas Thornton
