dispels

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What Thompson-Hernández’s art so easily dispels, no matter the genre it finds a home in, are all the knotty, misguided and trite representations of otherness in our contemporary world.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2026

The report also dispels a common view that guns are mainly owned by rural residents.

From BBC • Dec. 19, 2025

As with most holiday-related rituals, digging into the history of the yule log as a TV tradition dispels some of its mystical wonder, revealing its origin in desperate necessity.

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2025

Jarvis is moral and cognitively aware and dispels our anxieties that the technology could replace or even harm humans, said Chambliss, whose work explores the relationship between comics and culture.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

This dispels her first embarrassment, and the two begin to talk.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque