debunk
Example Sentences
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That assumption needs to be debunked, and it starts from the top.
Mr. Kennedy has long asserted that the measles vaccine causes autism, but the CDC page doesn’t go that far, perhaps because so many studies have debunked the claim.
His show had "become so packed with falsehoods about Mr. Trump's defeat that Fox Business was forced to run a fact-checking segment debunking some of its own anchor's assertions," The New York Times reported.
From Salon
Fox News, however, is under legal attack by two voting machine companies because of its retailing of thoroughly debunked claims about their role in supposedly fraudulent results in the 2020 presidential election.
From Los Angeles Times
The duo also meticulously debunks some of the false assertions and revisionist history that have sprung up around the show after it became a critical and commercial hit.
From Los Angeles Times
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