debunk
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Researchers found that when large language models, like ChatGPT or Claude, are instructed to debunk conspiracy theories, they often successfully change people’s minds.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026
It’s important to debunk this genetic stuff as we now live in a genomic age in which science has been used to justify all sorts of atrocity.
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026
Though easy to debunk, such theories persist as Artemis II comes decades after the previous lunar missions, events today's internet-savvy generation has little recollection of.
From Barron's • Apr. 11, 2026
The research helped him debunk myths of the near-useless male lion that seldom hunts and of the female as the consummate mother.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025
An older school of historians and philosophers took this framework for granted, while a newer school has wanted to debunk or deconstruct the concepts rather than explain their significance and trace their origin.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing debunk
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Vocabulary from the Third and Final Presidential Debate, October 19, 2016
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