discredited

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He’s discredited the idea that the two politicians have some kind of a sibling rivalry and noted that their trajectories ran adjacent and never collided.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026

Here, then, is a sampling of predictions, which range from the discredited to pseudoscience to the bizarre.

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

But the woman that people came to know on-screen as the bow-wielding renegade Katniss Everdeen — and off-screen as a goofy straight-shooter — was vilified by the media, discredited for the crime of being herself.

From Salon • Nov. 7, 2025

"Every single argument claiming that Nasa faked the Moon landings has been discredited," according to the Institute of Physics.

From BBC • Oct. 31, 2025

He discredited both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, the very book that had been so much a part of his belief system.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady