The phrase "debunked as" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that has had its credibility or truthfulness disproven or discredited. For example, "The belief that the world was flat was debunked as untrue centuries ago."
The number they cite is 2.5 million uses annually, but that figure has been repeatedly debunked, as has the lowest estimate provided by proponents of gun control, which is about a hundred thousand uses annually.
An opponent for class president receives a counterfeit cheat sheet and ends up answering the question "Which series of laws have since been debunked as an unjust perversion of democracy?" with the political-career-ending, the Emancipation Proclamation.
Many of the mysteries at such sites have been debunked as the result of fraud or optical illusion, although the debunking apparently does little to deter tourism, lively debates and a deep fascination with such "X-Files -style attractions.
Most of the paintings in the exhibition, which includes loans from the royal collection, Italy and the United States, have been hailed and then debunked as his genuine works, some of them several times over.
Beyond a few vague hypotheticals, Comey wouldn't give any specific examples at the hearing about where this has tripped up the FBI before, but the last time the FBI did, what they said was immediately debunked as nonsense.
He's been venerated as a marble man of impossible virtue and perfection and debunked as a cold, hard opportunist who just happened to lead a ragtag army to an unlikely victory over what was then the greatest military power in the world.
His own accounts of his life have long been blurred and rose-tinted: a good biographer, by contrast, has to avoid the pull of legend, and be prepared to coldly debunk as much as they lionise and celebrate.
I'm sure that there are myths about careers in academia held by long-term industry scientists, myths that could be debunked just as easily as the industry myths I listed above.
And she debunks as "convenient and simplistic" the notion that Islam and democracy are somehow incompatible.
This week's weirdness had me rushing to debunk it as soon as the news broke, only to find out it was true.
But the economy theory isn't as strongly debunked by Reiche, as the U.S.A. and China have the two largest economies in the world.
