disabuse

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

But two developments last week should quickly disabuse you of that notion.

From Salon ● May 16, 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

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 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

They were swiftly disabused of that notion — but not before deeming her “goonbait.”

From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2026

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

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025

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

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

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

"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

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