Example Sentences
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The Gulf states, we’re told, have been disabused of trusting the U.S., which has its own interests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
But he was quickly disabused of any hope that his prophesies of financial doom would sway opponents.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025
And viewers were disabused of any notion that the station might approach the interview with minimally journalistic standards pretty much instantly.
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2024
If anyone doubted that the Levys would be the only 2020 comedy winners onstage Sunday, they were eventually disabused of the notion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2024
He’d ridden into their cities mounted on a spectral, after all, and most of them assumed he was from Weep—at least, until Thyon Nero disabused them of that notion.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
