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  • Amy Elliott Dunne is like a yeti—coveted and folkloric—and they are two Ozarks grifters whose blurry story will be immediately debunked.†  (source)
    debunked = exposed as not true, real, or as valuable as others thought
  • This from Devan Lochees, the great debunker?†  (source)
  • Ever since, I've told what I find, confirming or debunking.†  (source)
    debunking = exposing something as not true, real, or as valuable as others thought
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  • I went around debunking claims of miracles all over the country.†  (source)
    debunking = exposing something as not true, real, or as valuable as others thought
  • Thankfully the rest of the world assumed that the Irish were crazy, a theory that the Irish themselves did nothing to debunk.†  (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)
    debunked = exposed as not true, real, or as valuable as others thought
  • The great debunker himself.†  (source)
  • Scientific debunking, he felt, was both noble and important, even if the public didn't always appreciate it.†  (source)
    debunking = exposing something as not true, real, or as valuable as others thought
  • And of course we as individuals must sympathetically debunk ourselves.†  (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)
    debunked = exposed as not true, real, or as valuable as others thought
  • 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)
    debunking = exposing something as not true, real, or as valuable as others thought
  • Many people use science to debunk religion, but Reverend Scheffler enlisted science to bolster his beliefs.†  (source)
  • He made a poor subject for blackmailers or debunking biographers.†  (source)
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