discredit
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“This is the reward for our warning the world that these viruses were coming,” Daszak says of the campaign to discredit EcoHealth.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026
The closure "really did a lot of work to discredit the notion of a just transition", Gibbs believes.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026
To my mind, these wildly inconsistent results are enough to discredit any accusation based on a Pangram analysis.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
Anna Sale: When news came out about your tattoo—the skull-and-crossbones design that resembles Nazi imagery—you said it was fed from people researching your background who wanted to discredit you.
From Slate • Mar. 4, 2026
I knew that this was jealousy, intended to discredit and destroy me as a tennis player, and it bothered me and made me angry.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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