How to Use debunk in a Sentence

debunk

verb

• The results of the study debunk his theory.
• The article debunks the notion that life exists on Mars.
• The people best equipped to debunk the B.S. are the survivors...
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 20 Sep. 2020
• And that is this: Such statements give us the chance to debunk them loud and long.
  — Peggy Drexler, CNN, 16 Sep. 2021
• Monique, 39, came out to set the record straight and debunk the rumors.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 17 Oct. 2022
• Telfar Clemens debunked tales of the It bag’s demise a few years ago, and Matthieu Blazy did the same in 2023.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 18 Dec. 2023
• While the opinion pages have stood up for the city, the news pages have tried to lay out all the facts that debunk Trump.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 3 Aug. 2019
• Allred moved quickly to debunk most of Collins' claims.
  — Dallas News, 17 Oct. 2020
• All those actions, at some point in time, will debunk the kind of rhetoric that has been out there.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2024
• Many of Trump’s tweets are easy to debunk and do not rise to the level of a Pinocchio rating.
  — Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2017
• The claim has also been debunked by Lead Stories and Reuters.
  — Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
• Lead Stories and Check Your Fact also debunked the claim.
  — Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2024
• More than twenty years ago, a group of Italian men set out to debunk that idea.
  — Ceridwen Dovey, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2019
• No such messages exist, and the story of the baby in the trashcan has been debunked.
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 29 Feb. 2024
• Reuters, Lead Stories and Snopes also debunked the claim.
  — Andre Byik, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2024
• Threats, which would be tasked with debunking fake news.
  — Emily Schultheis, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2017
• Now, that first point, about the danger of allowing in refugees, has been long debunked.
  — Jack Moore, GQ, 19 Sep. 2017
• Cobb police and Cobb Schools police were able to debunk the threat.
  — Asia Simone Burns, ajc, 11 Dec. 2021
• So, if science has debunked the five-second rule, does that mean it’s unsafe to eat food that has hit the floor?
  — Lori Adamski Peek, National Geographic, 14 Sep. 2016
• Le Pen quickly backed away from the suggestion as the rumors were debunked the next day.
  — Anna Kordunsky, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 May 2017
• The claim became so widespread that fact-checkers worked to debunk it.
  — New York Times, 28 Jan. 2022
• Many flawed arguments have been aired, here are ten of the most common—debunked: 1.
  — Time, 28 June 2023
• Dobbs later aired an episode of his program debunking many of the false claims.
  — ABC News, 18 July 2024
• Modern-day versions are here to debunk the mindset that mousses should be a thing of the past.
  — Wendy Sy, Allure, 23 Apr. 2021
• This piece will debunk that falsehood from start to finish.
  — Matt Shapiro, National Review, 8 June 2021
• The film has since been widely debunked, including by Reuters and FactCheck.org.
  — Ben Collins, NBC News, 31 Mar. 2023
• The myth has been debunked by myth-busting website Snopes.com and a host of scientists.
  — Leada Gore, AL.com, 24 Aug. 2017
• The notion that a team would eschew a QB upgrade just to punish the Browns makes no sense, and the events of last weekend debunk it.
  — cleveland, 8 May 2022
• Trending news reporter Diana Leyva debunked the wild rumors that Disney was headed to Tennessee.
  — Hadley Hitson, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
• In 2024, our experts debunked common misconceptions, investigated buzzy trends and weighed in on tricky social etiquette on a wide range of health and lifestyle topics.
  — Malaka Gharib, NPR, 16 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Jan 2025