disabuse

Example Sentences

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Now that they've been disabused of that assumption, due to the over 1,000 arrests, the target has shifted from the powerful federal government to some of the most vulnerable people in our society.

From Salon

The pandemic has disabused us of the illusion of time as a limitless resource and of the false promise that the sacrifices we make for our careers are always worth it.

From New York Times

"The Bank of Canada very much wants to disabuse people of the notion that what they are doing is in any way reckless," said Andrew Kelvin, chief Canada strategist at TD Securities.

From Reuters

So please disabuse yourself of any black-and-white notions of how this will turn out, and lift the responsibility for her well-being off your shoulders accordingly.

From Washington Post

But the floods have disabused him and many others here of the notion that small fixes, rather than fundamental changes, are enough.

From New York Times