Example Sentences

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"It's definitely not disabusing these women of any thoughts they have about men and male behaviour."

From BBC • Aug. 22, 2025

Answering hard questions runs the risk of disabusing some voters of who they think or hope she is.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2024

For Mazel-Carlton, one of the groups’ most essential tenets is that there must be no disabusing anyone of a personal reality.

From New York Times • May 17, 2022

Lee compared disabusing someone of the falsehoods in a Big Lie to treating regular delusions.

From Salon • Feb. 3, 2022

Rhonda had led the pack in disabusing Citra of that delusion through eyeball rolls and exasperated exhales each time Citra took an imperfect step.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman