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debunk

/dih-buhngk/US // dɪˈbʌŋk //UK // (diːˈbʌŋk) //

驳斥,揭穿,驳倒,驳论

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to expose or excoriate as being pretentious, false, or exaggerated: to debunk advertising slogans.

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Examples

  • Local news broadcaster Tegna plans to roll out its fact-checking and debunking vertical, Verify, into a standalone brand by this summer, and draw on local expertise among the 49 newsrooms across the country it serves.

  • This year, we felt it was necessary to take it one step further and give readers their own tools to debunk false and misleading visuals.

  • The anti-vaccine protest that temporarily cut off access to a mass vaccination site at Dodger Stadium was organized on Facebook through a page that promotes debunked claims about the coronavirus pandemic, masks and immunization.

  • “Some of the original forecasts from the IHME group were using a method that had been thoroughly debunked before I probably was even born,” Scarpino said.

  • The post was deleted because LG brutally debunked the report, calling it "completely false and without merit."

  • This is when Cummings realized that it was time to debunk that “people like strong women” rumor.

  • Those images themselves should debunk the myths that Islam and Muslims are extreme.

  • And empirical studies debunk what most Americans believe about drugs.

  • Part of what I was trying to do was debunk what people view as the golden ages.

  • The more we can reinforce good fear—and debunk bad fear—the more we can enhance those chances even further.