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debunking

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

驳斥,驳论,揭秘,揭穿

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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

  • The presented evidence, such as it was, ranged from the already debunked to Infowars-level nonsense.

  • Facebook on Thursday said it slapped warnings on more than 180 million pieces of content that were debunked by fact-checkers during the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election.

  • The video has been debunked — the papers in question were proven to be sample ballots, as they lacked the bar code that official ballots have along the edge — but people continue to share it online as “evidence” of supposed voter fraud.

  • Some of the pages included links to a Bannon-affiliated website called Populist Press, which included stories that have been debunked by fact-checkers.

  • The claims that Giuliani and the poll watchers made at the news conference were unsubstantiated and at times conflicting — and many have already been debunked.

  • Politics is about perception and confirming or debunking deeply held beliefs (whether or not those beliefs are factually based).

  • He has spent, by his own reckoning, almost half his career tracking down and debunking conspiracy theories.

  • Instead, she falls back on the idea—ostensibly outdated, but if she really believed it were, would debunking it yield an article?

  • But the article itself contained the seeds of its own debunking.

  • On May 20, 1894, the Times set about debunking some of these myths.