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Brit Hume @brithume
The word “refute” is regularly misused, where the correct word would be “rebut” or “dispute.” https://t.co/mcj9dt5SvF — PolitiTweet.org
H.W. Fowler Style @HenryWFowler
The word you want is “rebutted,” @CNNPolitics. To rebut is merely to contradict, which is all that happened here. T… https://t.co/ds2vO46pA2