debunk
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definition
verb
the magazine that debunks claims of the paranormal
expose the falseness or hollowness of (a myth, idea, or belief).
translation of 'debunk'
verb
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example
It is not their inclination to 'debunk' combat heroes…
Ignore or 'debunk' David Irving, but don't censor him.
If anything, the Oscar nominations 'debunk' the idea that this was a great year for women.
Goode's goal is to understand rather than to 'debunk' such beliefs.
This is the man who spends much energy trying to 'debunk' Mother Theresa.
Whoever is trying to 'debunk' him, they are simply jealous that he is up there and they are down there.
How to 'debunk' the man who set 61 NHL scoring records, led the NHL in scoring 10 times, and was the league MVP 9 times?
Sometimes this long-range goal is sacrificed because of the desire to expose or 'debunk' a current claim.
It is the first of several articles that 'debunk' the theory that ‘A-type’ personalities are prone to heart disease.
The film 'debunks' the notion of an egalitarian society.
She also 'debunked' a Western belief that health is synonymous with mediocrity and suffering with art.
Carr has usually been seen as a defender of realism and a 'debunker' of idealism, but his thinking was much more subtle.
A growing body of research on parent-adolescent relationships has 'debunked' the popular notion that emotional distancing is a necessary companion to adolescent individuation.
Here, Lévy offers a genuinely interesting take on the issue, siding, at least partially, with the 'debunkers' of the ‘obesity-as-disease’ myth.
Fourth, Dr. Robison also 'debunks' the common assumption that our kids are not only eating more today, they're eating more of the wrong kinds of food.
All told, an evening that deromanticises Ibsen without 'debunking' him and that offers vital proof as to why we still need the international festival.
She 'debunks' the idea that the human interest story was always central to American journalism.
Dr Marshall places Knox in his context and cuts him down to size without 'debunking' him or letting him be effaced by the tumult of his times.
He brilliantly 'debunks' the notion of a single ‘pre-political’, traditional and eternal concept of marriage.
In Newsweek today there's another nice piece of 'debunkery' by Hosenball and Isikoff.
Mike Males devotes a chapter in his 1999 book Framing Youth to 'debunking' the myth that young people are not oppressed.
More importantly, it 'debunks' the idea that educational reform is instituted to enhance the skills of the labour force.
They can open a window on the inner workings of ivory tower, 'debunking' stereotypes of academics as detached from the real world.
Over the past two centuries, Hamilton's reputation has waxed and waned as America has glorified or 'debunked' businessmen.
For one thing, Beckett treated such portentous interpretations of his work with typical Irish 'debunkery' .
In a few pages he 'debunks' the idea that testosterone makes men behave as they do.
Sommers is a peerless 'debunker' of feminist myths.
Even the great Enlightenment 'debunkers' - Nietzsche, Wittgenstein and Heidegger - are criticised by Gray for believing in human exceptionalism and for being too optimistic about man's fate.
A very ordinary rural chap (the Mirror piece certainly 'debunking' the idea that he is a reclusive loner), he has understandably won mass public sympathy for the way he was mistreated.
I suppose I should warn you that this is not the opinion of a planetary scientist and that if I introduce any more healthy skepticism I risk being accused of outright 'debunkery' !
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