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 Translation for 'debunk' from English to French
VERB   to debunk | debunked | debunked
debunking | debunks
SYNO to debunk | to expose
réfuter qc.to debunk sth.
dégonfler qc. [démystifier]to debunk sth. [myth, theory]
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  • and most notably NCAA where she and other student athletes debunk the myth of the dumb jock stigma.
  • Many investigators tried to confirm or debunk the letter, without any categorical outcomes.
  • In January 2007, two of the Obama campaign's first hires were opposition researchers, immediately assigned to debunk these e-mails.
  • Personal attacks are generally considered a fallacy when used in arguments since they do not attempt to debunk the opposing sides argument, rather attacking the qualities of a person.
  • Pastor Doug Sauder personally expressed support for vaccination against COVID-19 and used Calvary Church's reputation and access to large audiences to promote vaccine education and debunk conspiracies and superstition surrounding the vaccine.

  • Ueda joins other professors to debunk a spiritualist, Midorikawa Shouko, who claims she knows when people will die. The professors die one by one.
  • In an attempt to debunk 9/11 conspiracy theories, the team released "The Top September 11 Conspiracy Theories" report on August 28, 2006.
  • The chapter that follows, "A Brief Recuperative Debunk," shifts away from the Bush campaign to debunk a litany of false smears of Kerry consistently repeated by Fox News Channel personality Sean Hannity—to each of which Franken retaliates with an acknowledged-as-false anti-Hannity smear.
  • The 15th-century English chronicler John Hardyng later attempted to debunk Bisset's claims.
  • One of the co-founders of Keyhole has published a first-hand account claiming to debunk the origins, timelines and interpretations depicted in the fictionalized miniseries.

  • From 1994 on she published a series of newsletters titled "Ecofables/Ecoscience," using science to debunk myths about humans' relationship to the environment.
  • On 31 October, AFP released a fact-check article to debunk an idea that the German Foreign Minister said the Thai King did no wrong.
  • The community formed prior to and during Harris's 2020 presidential campaign as an effort to defend her from racist and sexist attacks and debunk misinformation.
  • "A.D.A.M. Life's Greatest Mysteries" is an educational interactive CD-ROM game. The title aims to debunk myths about the human body, mind, sickness, and other topics.
  • Amata lives between Los Angeles and Lagos. people thought she went missing, she later came out to debunk the news on social media.

  • Attempts to debunk legends surrounding Rizal, and the tug of war between freethinker and Catholic, have kept his legacy controversial.
  • Lasantha Wickrematunge investigated corrupt military procurement deals and spoke out strongly for a negotiated settlement to the ethnic conflict and continued to debunk what he saw as “government propaganda” on the war.
  • Fasching-Varner, K. J., & Mitchell, R. W. (2013). Capturing the moment to debunk the crisis. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 10(2), 124-127.
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