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debunking



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His “viral hospital rumor has been debunked,” the account wrote in a post accompanying an article about the debunking.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

An American former newspaper columnist took to his Substack page to attempt a debunking, which offered a coherent if implausible theory of why Europe isn’t all that bad and America isn’t all that great.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 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

It's a fantasy too stupid to need debunking.

From Salon ● Mar. 17, 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


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