debunk
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It’s hard to debunk false claims “coming with the seal of the federal government,” said Derek Tisler, counsel and manager with the Brennan Center for Justice’s elections and government program.
From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026
The flood of AI-fabricated visuals -- mixed with authentic imagery from the Middle East -- continues to grow faster than professional fact-checkers can debunk them.
From Barron's • Mar. 15, 2026
The trail of damage from Patterson’s pet project includes money fights, family estrangement and bitter fallouts as friends turned on each other amid efforts to debunk or defend the footage over the years.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 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
Yet when language scholars try to debunk the spurious rules, the dichotomizing mindset imagines that they are trying to abolish all standards of good writing.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing debunk
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Vocabulary from the Third and Final Presidential Debate, October 19, 2016
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