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What does controvert mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To dispute or argue using reason.
  2. (intransitive) To be involved or engaged in controversy.
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If the employer is to controvert that, there should be documentation of the problems.
The defendants are all in a position to controvert the contents of the statements if they dispute them.
They are wide open to spiritual suggestions that controvert and challenge the beliefs of their families.
For soon, empirical evidence about actual marriages will exist to potentially controvert the predictions.
Each act of his, and each opinion expressed, is likely to abolish or controvert some previous act or expressed opinion.
Bottom line: Daron Acemoglu and Ed Glaeser have useful questions, but I don't think they controvert the fundamental point of the book.

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