Modern usage allows refute in that sense.
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No, modern usage is simply incorrect usage.
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Sorry that’s just wrong and I am a pedant. Look up how the word has changed in most dictionaries
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You forgot the comma after "Sorry".
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They could of looked it up to check .. ( made my own teeth grate just writing that ) *shudders* ..
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Aaaarrrgghh!
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Sorry, just couldn't resist getting that one in ..
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Pedants who don’t know the difference between of and have. Oops.
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Decimate by half? (As the BBC website once used as a headline - unbelievably managing to be both wrong TWICE.
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I couldn't agree more
@JuliaHB1 All pro-Brexit arguments have been refuted yet Brexiteers refute reason. -
I refute that McGarry
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Rebut, reject, refute. The kids today don't know their three R's...
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Just what are you trying to infer??
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Language is organic. Have a day off.
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absolutely and it is about time the Labour party (or anyone else) stopped suspending people or persuade them to stand aside without telling them the outline at least of the allegation. One can make no answer if one does not know the basis of the charge.
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That's too clever for me.
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