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Recent Examples of disabuse And the refusal to be disabused by data suggests a deep instinct that vaccination in general is just too unnatural to be trusted — a very human impulse, clearly, but not one that can guide public health. Ross Douthat, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2025 Indeed, if anyone thought the entertainment business’ bloodletting was over after last year’s series of layoffs, Walt Disney Co. and Warner Bros. Discovery disabused them of that notion in recent days. Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2025 But my more seasoned friends disabused me of that notion. Anonymous, Vogue, 10 May 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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  • Its appeal is obvious: in societies plagued by crime and disillusioned with democratic institutions, the Bukele model offers an intoxicating promise—immediate results without the slow, uncertain work of institutional reform.
    Beatriz Magaloni, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2025
  • When Bianca Cefalo started working in the space industry, she was quickly disillusioned by its culture.
    Lisa Falco, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
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  • Sleep problems Men can ask their primary care doctors to perform a blood test to check their testosterone levels, Munger advised.
    Shiv Sudhakar, FOXNews.com, 4 Oct. 2025
  • If Your Party wants to avoid a similar fate, it would be well advised to be disciplined and electorally oriented—and to drop single-issue activism, hostility to Labour, and inept, baggage-laden figures such as Corbyn.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Another told Feltner to call a township trustee.
    Patricia Gallagher Newberry, Cincinnati Enquirer, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Caroline Ervin, landscape designer and owner of The Georgetown Garden Shop, told shrubs that produce berries in the fall are especially valuable during migration season, offering essential nutrition to birds in need of high-fat, energy-rich foods.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
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  • Reporters Mithil Aggarwal, Janhvi Bhojwani and Jay Ganglani dove into both protests where young people disenchanted by corruption and a lack of jobs took to the streets to demand radical economic and political reforms.
    Christian Orozco, NBC news, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Indeed, multiple reports have painted the generation as disenchanted with the dating scene.
    Chloe Berger, SELF, 18 Aug. 2025

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