How to Use debunk in a Sentence

debunk

verb
  • The results of the study debunk his theory.
  • The article debunks the notion that life exists on Mars.
  • The people best equipped to debunk the B.S. are the survivors...
    Brian Stelter, CNN, 20 Sep. 2020
  • And that is this: Such statements give us the chance to debunk them loud and long.
    Peggy Drexler, CNN, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Monique, 39, came out to set the record straight and debunk the rumors.
    Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Telfar Clemens debunked tales of the It bag’s demise a few years ago, and Matthieu Blazy did the same in 2023.
    José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 18 Dec. 2023
  • While the opinion pages have stood up for the city, the news pages have tried to lay out all the facts that debunk Trump.
    Brian Stelter, CNN, 3 Aug. 2019
  • Allred moved quickly to debunk most of Collins' claims.
    Dallas News, 17 Oct. 2020
  • All those actions, at some point in time, will debunk the kind of rhetoric that has been out there.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Many of Trump’s tweets are easy to debunk and do not rise to the level of a Pinocchio rating.
    Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2017
  • The claim has also been debunked by Lead Stories and Reuters.
    Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Lead Stories and Check Your Fact also debunked the claim.
    Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2024
  • More than twenty years ago, a group of Italian men set out to debunk that idea.
    Ceridwen Dovey, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2019
  • No such messages exist, and the story of the baby in the trashcan has been debunked.
    Seyward Darby, Longreads, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Reuters, Lead Stories and Snopes also debunked the claim.
    Andre Byik, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Threats, which would be tasked with debunking fake news.
    Emily Schultheis, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2017
  • Now, that first point, about the danger of allowing in refugees, has been long debunked.
    Jack Moore, GQ, 19 Sep. 2017
  • Cobb police and Cobb Schools police were able to debunk the threat.
    Asia Simone Burns, ajc, 11 Dec. 2021
  • So, if science has debunked the five-second rule, does that mean it’s unsafe to eat food that has hit the floor?
    Lori Adamski Peek, National Geographic, 14 Sep. 2016
  • Le Pen quickly backed away from the suggestion as the rumors were debunked the next day.
    Anna Kordunsky, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 May 2017
  • The claim became so widespread that fact-checkers worked to debunk it.
    New York Times, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Many flawed arguments have been aired, here are ten of the most common—debunked: 1.
    Time, 28 June 2023
  • Dobbs later aired an episode of his program debunking many of the false claims.
    ABC News, 18 July 2024
  • Modern-day versions are here to debunk the mindset that mousses should be a thing of the past.
    Wendy Sy, Allure, 23 Apr. 2021
  • This piece will debunk that falsehood from start to finish.
    Matt Shapiro, National Review, 8 June 2021
  • The film has since been widely debunked, including by Reuters and FactCheck.org.
    Ben Collins, NBC News, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The myth has been debunked by myth-busting website Snopes.com and a host of scientists.
    Leada Gore, AL.com, 24 Aug. 2017
  • The notion that a team would eschew a QB upgrade just to punish the Browns makes no sense, and the events of last weekend debunk it.
    cleveland, 8 May 2022
  • And in debunking the claims, Carey herself even acknowledged some of the visual’s faults, which may have fueled the speculation.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2024
  • There is no evidence to support Hegseth's claims, and, according to Clymer, the claims have been debunked by defense officials.
    Rachel Dobkin, Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2024

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