Usually means: Exposing falsehoods using factual evidence.
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  1. debunking: Merriam-Webster
  2. debunking: Collins English Dictionary
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  5. debunking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  8. debunking: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Debunking: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. debunking: Rhymezone
  11. debunking: FreeDictionary.org
  12. debunking: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. debunking: Legal dictionary

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  1. debunking: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  The act of showing something to be false (or bunkum)

Similar:
repudiation, flim-flam, flim, discrediting, flimflam, duping, flim flam, falsifying, ridiculing, bamboozlement, more...

Opposite:
validating, confirming, supporting

Types:
myth debunking, political debunking, medical debunking, more...

Phrases:
Debunking Economics, disprove a debunking, debunking humanization, more...

Adjectives:
such, thorough, general, effective, scientific, much, systematic, cynical, mere, ironic, simple

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Similar:
repudiation, flim-flam, flim, discrediting, flimflam, duping, flim flam, falsifying, ridiculing, bamboozlement, more...

Opposite:
validating, confirming, supporting

Types:
myth debunking, political debunking, medical debunking, more...

Phrases:
Debunking Economics, disprove a debunking, debunking humanization, more...

Adjectives:
such, thorough, general, effective, scientific, much, systematic, cynical, mere, ironic, simple



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