Example Sentences

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First principle: Orders are presumed to be lawful, but that presumption is rebuttable rather than conclusive.

From Slate • Nov. 24, 2025

“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

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 Thornton, William Thomas