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

“This time of year traditionally has not been fire season but now, we disabuse any notion that there is a season, it’s year-round in the state of California,” he said on social media.

From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2025

And while race and class aren’t explicitly addressed, it’s impossible not to view our protagonist’s actions through a ready-made privilege that Eastwood doesn’t disabuse us of pondering.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2024

“Do nothing to disabuse the public of this notion.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

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 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

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

If anyone doubted that the Levys would be the only 2020 comedy winners onstage Sunday, they were eventually disabused of the notion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2024

He’d ridden into their cities mounted on a spectral, after all, and most of them assumed he was from Weep—at least, until Thyon Nero disabused them of that notion.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

"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

Lee compared disabusing someone of the falsehoods in a Big Lie to treating regular delusions.

From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2022

It seems to me that enlightenment means disabusing oneself of the notion that such a thing matters—at least to the degree that “society” says it does.

From Slate ● Aug. 15, 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