disabuse
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The President may have to disabuse them of that impression.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
We have to disabuse ourselves of that idea.
From Slate • Dec. 26, 2025
And while race and class aren’t explicitly addressed, it’s impossible not to view our protagonist’s actions through a ready-made privilege that Eastwood doesn’t disabuse us of pondering.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2024
He added: “We’re taking a look at it. But I would disabuse you at this early hour of any connection to Ukraine.”
From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2024
I was full of misery at my lie, but I found I could not disabuse him of it—I could conjure no words sufficient.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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Power Prefix: dis-
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Grade 12, List 5
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