debunk
verb (used with object)
to expose or excoriate (a claim, assertion, sentiment, etc.) as being pretentious, false, or exaggerated.
debunker
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a word derived from
debunk.
Example Sentences
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"The US Top Secret-cleared aerospace and nuclear workforce is ~700,000 people," science writer, investigator and pseudoscience debunker Mick West wrote on 16 April on his Substack.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026
“What’s happening is the use of the language of real science to sell their products,” says Timothy Caulfield of the University of Alberta, a veteran debunker of pseudoscience and a co-author of the new paper.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2025
As Mick West, a prominent skeptic and debunker, writes in a 2021 Guardian piece, such influential messengers couch “weak evidence” for UFOs as compelling.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 27, 2023
Immediately afterwards, I received an email from the so-called "UAP debunker," Mick West.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2022
“How about that? The great debunker himself” Chronicler relaxed slightly, obviously pleased to have his reputation precede him.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
