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Recent Examples of disabuse But my more seasoned friends disabused me of that notion. Anonymous, Vogue, 10 May 2025 Josh tried to disabuse her of the mistaken identity, but the woman wasn’t having it. Kent Russell, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025 But that warning has done little to disabuse Diet Coke lovers looking for their afternoon caffeine fix. Ross Rosenfeld, Newsweek, 25 Feb. 2025 Those who felt that part one would have been better suited to a television series will find little to disabuse them of that notion in this installment, which intercuts among its disparate characters and story strands even more rapidly. Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for disabuse
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Verb
  • Directed by Ron Howard, the thriller tells the real-life tale of what became known as the Galapagos Affair, wherein a group of eight Europeans, disillusioned by the onset of fascism and a looming world war, settled on the uninhabited island of Floreana in 1929.
    EW.com, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Lydia Patrick/Lydia Patrick Kajal, 29, and Cameron, 26, are also disillusioned with dating apps, which led them to try the pods.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Skinner advises travelers to try their best to remain calm and engage with the person as little as possible.
    Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Velasco advised a student with a talent for poetry to apply for the Oskar Knoblauch Holocaust Impact Video Contest using one of his poems.
    Erick Trevino, AZCentral.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The cause of the accident was not immediately known, although the car appeared to have derailed, which a source from the Lisbon Firefighters Regiment told local media may have been caused by a loose cable leading to brake failure.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Figma added four new AI-native tools to its platform this quarter and told investors on the call to expect significant investments in AI going forward.
    Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Indeed, multiple reports have painted the generation as disenchanted with the dating scene.
    Chloe Berger, SELF, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The industry’s changing priorities and shaky quality assurance have left her disenchanted by the business.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2025

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“Disabuse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disabuse. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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