disabuse

The filmmakers surely won’t disabuse you of that notion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

“When people are determined to see something in a particular way, there is only so much you can do to disabuse them of that,” says Matt Lundquist, founder and clinical director at Tribeca Therapy.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

The President may have to disabuse them of that impression.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

We have to disabuse ourselves of that idea.

From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2025

There was nothing that one could do to disabuse them of this notion.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

Blood-soaked and candlelit, Michael Mohan’s “Immaculate” disabuses the notion that any conception is ever without sin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2024

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

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

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

If he had hoped for that to be sufficient to shore up his authority he was to be swiftly disabused.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

He soon disabused them of such a notion.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026

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

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

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

"It's definitely not disabusing these women of any thoughts they have about men and male behaviour."

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2025

For Mazel-Carlton, one of the groups’ most essential tenets is that there must be no disabusing anyone of a personal reality.

From New York Times ● May 17, 2022

As late as the 1980s, doctors were still disabusing patients of the notion that, as one physician commentator put it, “stools waiting to be expelled” were “evil” objects producing “absorbable poisons.”

From Slate ● Aug. 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

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