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- Report of Joint Commission on Prescription Drug Use: Final report, January 23, 1980 by Joint Commission on Prescription Drug Use, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research. Page 1
- "If the letter or case report was subsequently referenced by later authors, their articles were read to determine whether the citation was to substantiate or refudiate the initial claim or was it a "quote of acceptance". "
- Note: this could be a mistake for 'repudiate' which would seem to fit in context. (Could be scanno by google.)
- Clinical research in communicative disorders:principles and strategies by Mahabalagiri N. Hegde 1987 page 317
- "The value of given data can and must be judged regardless of the hypothesis they are supposed to support or refudiate. A set of data may not have served the purposes of an investigator, but it may still be sound."
- Worldwide narcotics review of the 1988 international narcotics control strategy report: hearing before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, second session, March 3, 1988, Issues 16-21 United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Page 9
- "I am going to do everything I can along with the Chairman to see this Congress refudiate the certification of certain countries that are not complying."
2010 November 4, Robert Lane Greene, “Eggcorn, mashup, malamanteau or other?”, Johnson, in The Economist:G.L.'s post reminded me that "malamanteau" could in fact be quite useful, if we reduced its meaning to simply "an erroneous and and unintentional portmanteau". This would cover "refudiate" and others like it.
2010 December 6, Melanie Sheridan, “Oxford Add Words”, in The Enthusiast, archived from the original on 2010-12-15:In a move that will no doubt confirm some people’s suspicions about US English, the New Oxford American Dictionary’s Word of the Year for 2010 isn’t even a word. Refudiate – renowned intellect Sarah Palin’s mangling of ‘refute’ and ‘repudiate’ into one Frankenstein of a malamanteau – beat gleek (a fan of the TV show Glee), nom nom (an expression of the deliciousness of food) and vuvuzela (a deafening torture device that resembles a trumpet) for the honours.