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debunk

verb as in disprove, ridicule

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That story has since been soundly debunked—Doubleday probably wasn’t even in Cooperstown at the time he supposedly created a whole new sport.

His memo was so thick with lies that it would take a week to debunk them all.

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Rossi maintained his debunked claims of mistaken identity - which have been disproved by DNA and matching tattoos - during his court appearance on Monday.

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Starbucks spokesperson Jaci Anderson said in response to a request for comment Monday that “allegations by Workers United have all previously been debunked and are without merit.”

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She compared photographs of women diagnosed with hysteria, a condition later debunked, with those taken by spiritists who were trying to make photographs of dead people appearing behind grieving relatives.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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