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Definition of Debunks
1. debunk [v] - See also: debunk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Debunks
Literary usage of Debunks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. California and Affirmative Action: Hearing Before the Committee on the by United States. (1999)
"In addition, an examination of historical unemployment tables debunks the myth
that jobs are going to African-American men at the expense of white males. ..."
2. Ecology and Conservation of the Marbled Murrelet by C. John Ralph (1997)
"... murrelet could nest in trees, although Dawson (1923) mentions (and then debunks)
an apocryphal Indian account of them nesting inland in "hollow trees. ..."
3. Managing Water for Drought: National Study of Water Management During Droughtby William J. Werick by William J. Werick (1997)
"William Elliott, of the Water Supply Citizens Advisory Committee in Massachusetts,
debunks the notion that conservation is the villain by pointing out that ..."
4. The Urban Condition: space, community, and self in the contemporary metropolis by Ghent Urban Studies Team (1999)
"Wilson, who debunks several popular myths concerning social problems and the
underclass in the us, identifies principally economic realities as responsible ..."
5. Crossover: Architecture, Urbanism, Technology by Ad Graafland, Leslie Jaye Kavanaugh, George Baird (2006)
"Not as the critic who debunks, but the one who assembles. The critic in his
thinking is not the one who pulls the rug from under the feet of the naive ..."
6. Changing the Fourth Estate: Essays on South African Journalism by Adrian Hadland (2005)
"Among the myths that Thamm debunks: freelancing is about slowing down, can be
done in an isolated retreat and isn'ta real job. There is also a commonly held ..."
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