verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
explode/dispel/debunk a myth (= show that it is not true )
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Our goal is to debunk the myth that science is boring.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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In her book she debunks a lot of the claims made by astrologers.
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Payton wants to debunk the myth that economics is a science.
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The study debunks the myth that men are better at math than women.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And it debunked and later destroyed the reputation of a great sea captain, a good friend of my father.
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But as Sulloway was plugging away, other scientists were busy debunking birth order.
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Fortunately, the Internet itself provides a good way to debunk these hoaxes.
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Hence, the spate of was-the-risk-exaggerated, debunking stories.
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In both poems, Leapor attempts to debunk unreal expectations of marriage.
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The view that Anne was a sentimental Jacobite who secretly wished her brother-in-law to succeed her has now been debunked as myth.