disabuse

Warsh has vowed repeatedly over the last two months to restore price stability, to disabuse investors of the idea the Fed has implicitly accepted higher inflation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

Investors are seeking certainty from the experts, and rather than disabuse them of those mistaken hopes, the pros often reinforce them.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026

We have to disabuse ourselves of that idea.

From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2025

Kirsh wants to quickly disabuse her and the other Lost Boys of that idea, given his experience of being sentient property and, perhaps, his experience of typically being the smartest one in the room.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2025

He never claimed to be that which he was not, but did not disabuse people of their assumptions.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

Papic disabuses one common notion the U.S. is a net exporter of crude, saying it’s a net exporter of refined products, which is a very different thing.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 22, 2026

An aspiring standup comedian, he believes his mission is to bring laughter to the world, until life disabuses him of that notion.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 28, 2019

Biography, at its most useful, disabuses us from myth, but “Churchill” has no such ambitions.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2017

Calmer, simpler, less frenetic, the staging touchingly has Rosalind lie on the ground across Orlando’s legs as she disabuses him of the dewy-eyed notion that heartache is fatal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2016

Closer inspections, when its temporary nature is made plain, disabuses this idea entirely.

From The Cathedrals of Southern France by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

The Gulf states, we’re told, have been disabused of trusting the U.S., which has its own interests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

But he was quickly disabused of any hope that his prophesies of financial doom would sway opponents.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025

"The second half turns to the substitutions," such as Lord Acton or Sigmund Freud, "that were proposed to orient liberals for the tragic future disabused of emancipatory hope."

From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2023

His one term in the White House should have disabused him of this notion.

From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2023

I disabused him of this notion, and he relented, giving me all that I had sought.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Hence, “Succession” continues HBO’s prestige drama tradition of disabusing fans of all the notions they invested in all season long.

From Salon ● May 29, 2023

"But people were so disappointed that I stopped disabusing them. Now, I think, 'who cares?'"

From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2021

Part of Guisados’ mission is educating consumers that there’s more to Mexican food than carne asada, he said, as well as disabusing diners of the notion that tacos should always be cheap.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2021

However, I’m getting tripped up on where the line is between not lying to your kids and actively disabusing them of things they’ve made up.

From Slate ● Jan. 3, 2021

Rhonda had led the pack in disabusing Citra of that delusion through eyeball rolls and exasperated exhales each time Citra took an imperfect step.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman