disabuse

Warsh has vowed repeatedly over the last two months to restore price stability, to disabuse investors of the idea the Fed has implicitly accepted higher inflation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

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

But two developments last week should quickly disabuse you of that notion.

From Salon ● May 16, 2026

And while race and class aren’t explicitly addressed, it’s impossible not to view our protagonist’s actions through a ready-made privilege that Eastwood doesn’t disabuse us of pondering.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2024

Indeed, they felt it their duty to disabuse me of my weaponized history.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

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

Calmer, simpler, less frenetic, the staging touchingly has Rosalind lie on the ground across Orlando’s legs as she disabuses him of the dewy-eyed notion that heartache is fatal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2016

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

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

If he had hoped for that to be sufficient to shore up his authority he was to be swiftly disabused.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

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

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

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Answering hard questions runs the risk of disabusing some voters of who they think or hope she is.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2024

"But people were so disappointed that I stopped disabusing them. Now, I think, 'who cares?'"

From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2021

However, I’m getting tripped up on where the line is between not lying to your kids and actively disabusing them of things they’ve made up.

From Slate ● Jan. 3, 2021

Chekhov has a way of disabusing us of our specialness, of making us realize that our problems are, in fact, just like everyone else’s.

From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2020

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