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  • Yet this is no more comprehensible to common sense than religious mysteries that non-believers work so hard to debunk.†  (source)
  • Thankfully the rest of the world assumed that the Irish were crazy, a theory that the Irish themselves did nothing to debunk.†  (source)
  • Amy Elliott Dunne is like a yeti—coveted and folkloric—and they are two Ozarks grifters whose blurry story will be immediately debunked.†  (source)
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  • He spent a chapter debunking first what the press had written about Salander, then what Prosecutor Ekström had claimed, and thereby indirectly the entire police investigation.†  (source)
  • What if the gospels that had been dismissed and debunked were the real ones, and the ones that had been picked for the New Testament were the embellished versions?†  (source)
  • This from Devan Lochees, the great debunker?†  (source)
  • He made a poor subject for blackmailers or debunking biographers.†  (source)
  • "was the single most important article ever written that debunked the pervasive linguistic fallacies associated with cognitive-deficit hypotheses"—that is, the fallacy that speakers of Black English were somehow mentally backward.†  (source)
  • The great debunker himself.†  (source)
  • I went around debunking claims of miracles all over the country.†  (source)
  • Ever since, I've told what I find, confirming or debunking.†  (source)
  • Those temperamentally so inclined will find reassurance in two books we have already quoted, The Way We Talk Now, by Geoffrey Nunberg, and Language Myths, edited by Laurie Bauer and Peter Trudgill, a collection of essays debunking widely held conceptions (or, as the authors maintain, misconceptions) about our language.†  (source)
  • Scientific debunking, he felt, was both noble and important, even if the public didn't always appreciate it.†  (source)
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