disabuse

“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

Soon enough, Paine’s words and Washington’s generalship would disabuse the nonchalant confidence of the British.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

“This time of year traditionally has not been fire season but now, we disabuse any notion that there is a season, it’s year-round in the state of California,” he said on social media.

From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2025

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

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

He soon disabused them of such a notion.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 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

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

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

"It's definitely not disabusing these women of any thoughts they have about men and male behaviour."

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2025

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

For Mazel-Carlton, one of the groups’ most essential tenets is that there must be no disabusing anyone of a personal reality.

From New York Times ● May 17, 2022

Lee compared disabusing someone of the falsehoods in a Big Lie to treating regular delusions.

From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2022

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