disabuse

Investors are seeking certainty from the experts, and rather than disabuse them of those mistaken hopes, the pros often reinforce them.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026

The President may have to disabuse them of that impression.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

“This time of year traditionally has not been fire season but now, we disabuse any notion that there is a season, it’s year-round in the state of California,” he said on social media.

From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2025

Broussard tried to disabuse me of this notion.

From Slate ● May 11, 2024

Harry, Ron, and Hermione exchanged looks, but before they could disabuse Hagrid of this comfortable notion, Mr. and Mrs. Weasley and Ginny appeared, all clutching heavy packages of books.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

Papic disabuses one common notion the U.S. is a net exporter of crude, saying it’s a net exporter of refined products, which is a very different thing.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 22, 2026

Blood-soaked and candlelit, Michael Mohan’s “Immaculate” disabuses the notion that any conception is ever without sin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2024

An aspiring standup comedian, he believes his mission is to bring laughter to the world, until life disabuses him of that notion.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 28, 2019

Biography, at its most useful, disabuses us from myth, but “Churchill” has no such ambitions.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2017

Closer inspections, when its temporary nature is made plain, disabuses this idea entirely.

From The Cathedrals of Southern France by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

The Gulf states, we’re told, have been disabused of trusting the U.S., which has its own interests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

But he was quickly disabused of any hope that his prophesies of financial doom would sway opponents.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025

In an odd way, I count myself lucky to be disabused so forcefully of any fantasies of material permanence while I’m still in the middle of my life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2025

And viewers were disabused of any notion that the station might approach the interview with minimally journalistic standards pretty much instantly.

From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2024

I disabused him of this notion, and he relented, giving me all that I had sought.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

"It's definitely not disabusing these women of any thoughts they have about men and male behaviour."

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2025

Lee compared disabusing someone of the falsehoods in a Big Lie to treating regular delusions.

From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2022

As late as the 1980s, doctors were still disabusing patients of the notion that, as one physician commentator put it, “stools waiting to be expelled” were “evil” objects producing “absorbable poisons.”

From Slate ● Aug. 23, 2021

Part of Guisados’ mission is educating consumers that there’s more to Mexican food than carne asada, he said, as well as disabusing diners of the notion that tacos should always be cheap.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2021

Rhonda had led the pack in disabusing Citra of that delusion through eyeball rolls and exasperated exhales each time Citra took an imperfect step.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman