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Engineers said they were able to debunk some "myths", including that bullets can ricochet off the curve in the ballistic plate.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Ditto a reversal by NASA, whose then-leader enjoyed burbling in public about aliens but was soon assembling an expert panel to debunk such careless if crowd-pleasing talk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

It’s important to debunk this genetic stuff as we now live in a genomic age in which science has been used to justify all sorts of atrocity.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026

Though easy to debunk, such theories persist as Artemis II comes decades after the previous lunar missions, events today's internet-savvy generation has little recollection of.

From Barron's ● Apr. 11, 2026

Yet when language scholars try to debunk the spurious rules, the dichotomizing mindset imagines that they are trying to abolish all standards of good writing.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

AFP's global network has produced more than 500 debunks of false information in multiple languages since the conflict began -- a rate never before seen in such a crisis.

From Barron's ● Apr. 2, 2026

“The film itself debunks any attempts to debunk it.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

Liz O'Riordan, who herself has breast cancer, often debunks health misinformation online.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2025

Although this debunks the previous assumptions about protoplanetary disks, it also confirms earlier images from the mid-2000s from NASA’s Hubble Telescope.

From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2024

Research debunks myths of homelessness and substance abuse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2023

Rumors, recently debunked, spread that the town fired two workers over the foul-up, though neither processed payments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

It’s just not the true story; it has been debunked.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

Our reviews of court files found that statements made by the arresting officers were repeatedly debunked by video footage.

From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2026

Fox debunked the reports and offered a number of apt reactions to learning about one’s own death.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026

This “rule” was popular for half a century, until leading grammarians debunked it.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

An American former newspaper columnist took to his Substack page to attempt a debunking, which offered a coherent if implausible theory of why Europe isn’t all that bad and America isn’t all that great.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

Also, it was debunking the lie that just because we’re all in the music business, we all like each other.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

Internet users are increasingly turning to chatbots to verify images in real time, but the tools often fail, raising questions about their visual debunking capabilities.

From Barron's ● Dec. 16, 2025

Even then, these debunking claims, already quite common, seemed a bit far-fetched, but I shrugged and wrote it off: Everyone is entitled to one eccentricity.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2024

Its place in the canons of poetics and rhetoric, moreover, has largely survived the personal debunking of its author.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith