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No doubt the TikTok amateur detectives would’ve momentarily shifted from true crime to the Chaplin twins, trying their damnedest to debunk what only the sisters could truly understand.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

Bass has naturally tried to debunk the poll.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Engineers said they were able to debunk some "myths", including that bullets can ricochet off the curve in the ballistic plate.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Ditto a reversal by NASA, whose then-leader enjoyed burbling in public about aliens but was soon assembling an expert panel to debunk such careless if crowd-pleasing talk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Thankfully the rest of the world assumed that the Irish were crazy, a theory that the Irish themselves did nothing to debunk.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

Ms. Schrager debunks several myths that she says keep Americans of all ages and stations from taking healthy chances.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

AFP's global network has produced more than 500 debunks of false information in multiple languages since the conflict began -- a rate never before seen in such a crisis.

From Barron's ● Apr. 2, 2026

McSweeney debunks the idiotic medical claims of non-scientists like Kennedy in his popular social media videos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2025

Bennett debunks the idea that "major equals happy, minor equals sad", adding that "minor keys are more a shorthand for emotional depth".

From BBC ● May 10, 2025

The text of these articles often debunks the talking point by pointing out that Musk's numbers are made up, but most people don't read articles.

From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2025

“The diversion allegations against this regional cloud were thoroughly investigated and debunked last year.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

One that even Miranda herself had - unwisely - "debunked" at the roundtable.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Ernetti produced an image he believed was akin to the Christ he witnessed, which was soon debunked as a close-up photograph of a wooden sculpture.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

Such a potential link has been debunked by years of research.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026

This “rule” was popular for half a century, until leading grammarians debunked it.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

The pulmonologist Dr. Hasmeena Kathuria penned a column in the Washington Post last week debunking wellness claims about nicotine and underscoring its risks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Also, it was debunking the lie that just because we’re all in the music business, we all like each other.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

If every event is met with automatic suspicion and conspiracy theory, we’ll spend all our time debunking nonsense, and nothing will ever get better.

From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2026

Internet users are increasingly turning to chatbots to verify images in real time, but the tools often fail, raising questions about their visual debunking capabilities.

From Barron's ● Dec. 16, 2025

Its place in the canons of poetics and rhetoric, moreover, has largely survived the personal debunking of its author.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith