Sentence examples of "réfuter" in French

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Les témoins ont pu réfuter le faux témoignage du suspect. The witnesses were able to refute the false testimony of the suspect.
Loin de réfuter la thèse selon laquelle la race est responsable d'un QI plus faible, les données de Lynn ne font que l'appuyer. Far from refuting the thesis that race is to blame for lower IQ score, Lynn's data actually supports it.
L'équipage de Christophe Colomb s'est souvent plaint qu'il saturait la connexion wifi du navire pour s'adonner à des jeux en ligne, mais il réfuta ces accusations avec indignation, en faisant valoir qu'il recherchait des îles lointaines qu'ils devaient encore découvrir à l'époque. His crew members often complained of Christopher Columbus's hogging of their vessel's Wifi connection to play online games, but he denied these accusations with indignation, claiming that he was researching faraway lands that they had yet to discover.
Une bonne théorie se caractérise par le fait de faire une série de prédictions qui, en principe, pourraient être réfutées ou mises en défaut par l'observation. A good theory is characterized by the fact that it makes a number of predictions that could in principle be disproved or falsified by observation.
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