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.
• And that is this: Such statements give us the chance to debunk them loud and long.
  — Peggy Drexler, CNN, 16 Sep. 2021
• The people best equipped to debunk the B.S. are the survivors...
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 20 Sep. 2020
• Allred moved quickly to debunk most of Collins' claims.
  — Dallas News, 17 Oct. 2020
• 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
• Threats, which would be tasked with debunking fake news.
  — Emily Schultheis, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2017
• This piece will debunk that falsehood from start to finish.
  — Matt Shapiro, National Review, 8 June 2021
• The claim became so widespread that fact-checkers worked to debunk it.
  — New York Times, 28 Jan. 2022
• Giles said there is still work to do to debunk fears surrounding the ordinance.
  — Alison Steinbach, The Arizona Republic, 7 May 2021
• The secretary of state’s office has debunked those claims.
  — Kate Brumback, Anchorage Daily News, 31 July 2023
• 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
• Modern-day versions are here to debunk the mindset that mousses should be a thing of the past.
  — Wendy Sy, Allure, 23 Apr. 2021
• Nestlé also took to its site to debunk the myth that drinking water with a meal can lead to bloating.
  — Mckenzie Sadeghi, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2020
• More than twenty years ago, a group of Italian men set out to debunk that idea.
  — Ceridwen Dovey, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2019
• Now, that first point, about the danger of allowing in refugees, has been long debunked.
  — Jack Moore, GQ, 19 Sep. 2017
• But their claims were debunked for lack of concrete evidence.
  — Yohannes Gedamu, Quartz Africa, 26 June 2019
• The state has been quick to fact check and debunk all unsubstantiated claims.
  — Sophie Lewis, CBS News, 7 Nov. 2020
• 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
• Cobb police and Cobb Schools police were able to debunk the threat.
  — Asia Simone Burns, ajc, 11 Dec. 2021
• The claim has also been debunked by Lead Stories and Reuters.
  — Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
• This is far from the first time Gomez has used social media to debunk dating rumors.
  — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 22 Sep. 2023
• This idea is difficult to debunk, largely because there is a kernel of truth to it.
  — Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
• Yet weeks removed from the release of the initial research findings, those claims seem all but debunked.
  — Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2023
• Scientists have tested the legend of terroir, either to debunk it as a myth or to prove it.
  — Washington Post, 28 May 2021
• Monique, 39, came out to set the record straight and debunk the rumors.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 17 Oct. 2022
• His ideas have since been widely debunked by modern science.
  — Lindsay Gellman, Longreads, 22 Mar. 2018
• Wen also debunked the idea that wearing a mask in public will help prevent a person from getting the virus.
  — Grace Segers, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2020
• But the white boot trend, which has remained a force for several seasons, has since debunked that myth.
  — Lauren Alexis Fisher, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Aug. 2019
• 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

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024