disabuse
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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
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
The movie’s Australian-born director, Justin Kurzel, has long had a thing for bleakness, and his new movie won’t disabuse you of that characterization.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2024
I was full of misery at my lie, but I found I could not disabuse him of it—I could conjure no words sufficient.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" 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
Bucar disabuses readers of any preconceived ideas that women who adhere to an aesthetic of modesty are unfashionable or frumpy.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 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
When Shira casually disabuses Andi of the notion that Ahmad is her real father in an attempt to win her over, whatever empathy I’d felt for Shira more or less ran out.
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 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
But Zell quickly disabused them of that hope.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2023
I disabused him of this notion, and he relented, giving me all that I had sought.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Answering hard questions runs the risk of disabusing some voters of who they think or hope she is.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2024
Lee compared disabusing someone of the falsehoods in a Big Lie to treating regular delusions.
From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2022
"But people were so disappointed that I stopped disabusing them. Now, I think, 'who cares?'"
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2021
However, I’m getting tripped up on where the line is between not lying to your kids and actively disabusing them of things they’ve made up.
From Slate ● Jan. 3, 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
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