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Discover LudwigThe word "Debunk" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used when exposing the falseness or hollowness of a myth, idea, or belief. Example: "The scientist aimed to debunk the popular myth that vaccines cause autism."
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Debunk
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To discredit, or expose to ridicule the falsehood or the exaggerated claims of something.
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These are papered up around Rathmines, nice to see something positive on the walk to work #RefugeesWelcome pic.twitter.com/T1DoRhJWV9 The seven debunked rumours are as follows: 1) "We don't have space" Debunk: "There are over 250,000 empty homes in the country" 2) "What about our own?" Debunk: "1 in 6 people born in Ireland live abroad; the world looks after 'our own'.
When the Labour leader said no, a lowing sound could be heard, the noise of an audience uniting in sceptical rejection of the man before them – a reminder that one of Miliband's greatest errors since 2010 was his failure to debunk the narrative that blames Labour profligacy for the country's fiscal troubles.
On the Saudi side, the departure of US troops stationed in the country to neighbouring Qatar was meant to debunk jihadi pledges to "remove infidels from the Arabian peninsula".
As Jonathan Freedland points out in his sharp analysis of how the three leaders fared, perhaps Miliband's true achilles heel in this election is not the SNP, but his failure to debunk the narrative that Labour's profligacy was the reason for the "no money left" note.
One of the chief tools used to debunk stuff like the fact that US consumers plough through 1,500 single-use plastic water bottles a second and less than 20% are recycled is so-called Life Cycle Assessment.
The Daily Mirror only seems to have repeated the myth on four occasions – less than the Guardian, which has repeated it on six occasions, even though it did eventually debunk the myth in several different articles.
Instead of Woolas-type pronouncements, what we tend to get these days are opportunities to debunk "environmental hysteria" (of the type I'm displaying right now) sponsored by the soft drinks industry.
But, say the authors of this article, for today's middle-aged executive, "midlife is your best and last chance to become the real you".The authors aim to debunk two myths.
(Which the local public-security bureau has since tried to debunk).Your correspondent has learned that to ask demonstrators in these situations whether they have been put up to being there, or even helped along, is a risky thing to do.
Some people have suggested that it is actually written in a form of ancient Ukrainian in which vowels are omitted.Dr Knight has used a statistical-translation program to debunk this theory by showing that the order and frequencies of symbols do not match those in Ukrainian.
Stevenson's life and work have divided critics, and many have tried to debunk him.
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