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Examples of debunk
debunk
He's gone very quiet about it early ill-advised attempt to debunk it, hasn't he?
From the guardian.co.uk
Big food companies mobilized to debunk this claim, funding a study of their own.
From the npr.org
Tom feels passionately that Margaret should debunk Silver but she urges caution.
From the halesowennews.co.uk
Can you do me a favor now and debunk the myth that the Penguins are a young team?
From the post-gazette.com
Story after story and many editorials and letters debunk the alarmist rhetoric.
From the ocregister.com
Sometimes he has to debunk some misconceptions, such as Scouting is militaristic.
From the news-journalonline.com
A lack of historical documents spawned conspiracy theories he wanted to debunk.
From the guardian.co.uk
Even so, he has failed to debunk all of the knocks NBA scouts have on his game.
From the usatoday.com
I could point out lots of examples where we try to debunk privacy misconceptions.
From the mattcutts.com
- Expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas; "The physicist debunked the psychic's claims"
- (debunking) repudiation: the exposure of falseness or pretensions; "the debunking of religion has been too successful"
- A debunker is an individual who discredits and exposes claims as being false, exaggerated or pretentious. "to expose or excoriate (a claim, assertion, sentiment, etc.) as being pretentious, false, or exaggerated: to debunk advertising slogans. ...
- To discredit, or expose to ridicule the falsehood or the exaggerated claims of something
- (Debunking) social constructivism. This is the skeptical position according to which the findings of work in the sciences are determined exclusively, or in large measure, not by the "facts," but instead by relations of social power within the scientific community and the broader community within ...
- (Debunking) the process that is used in ghost hunting to find a logical, physical explanation for a reported paranormal incident. E.g., a report of a ghost knocking turning out to be rattling pipes
- To find a rational and logical explanation for reported experiences rather than assume that they are paranormal in nature.
- To find a "normal" or alternative explanation to an event that, at first, appears to be paranormal in origin.
- Exposing a claim (of a paranormal or supernatural nature in this case) as false or exaggerated
