disabuse

But when AI is wrong, it can be a huge lift to disabuse patients of what they thought was a diagnosis, taking up valuable time in an appointment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

The filmmakers surely won’t disabuse you of that notion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

“When people are determined to see something in a particular way, there is only so much you can do to disabuse them of that,” says Matt Lundquist, founder and clinical director at Tribeca Therapy.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

They seek to disabuse their leaders of the fantasy that tourism will be a magic bullet that will somehow bring sustainable economic development to the area.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

Blanca tried to disabuse him of his error, explaining that neither she nor her work contained a drop of Indian blood, but the language barrier prevented him from understanding her point of view.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

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

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

When Shira casually disabuses Andi of the notion that Ahmad is her real father in an attempt to win her over, whatever empathy I’d felt for Shira more or less ran out.

From Slate ● Feb. 3, 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

His experience disabused him of doomerism, convincing him that AI risks could be contained with better security, which could prevent AI-enabled cyberattacks and misaligned agents from going wild.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

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

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

He’d ridden into their cities mounted on a spectral, after all, and most of them assumed he was from Weep—at least, until Thyon Nero disabused them of that notion.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

Hence, "Succession" continues HBO's prestige drama tradition of disabusing fans of all the notions they invested in all season long.

From Salon ● May 29, 2023

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

From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2021

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

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