dispel

• “There is this notion, one which I try to dispel, which is that people who hold strong antigay positions are always secretly gay.”

  Newsweek: Left Wing: When Gay Bashers Are Gay, Why Do People Just Mock and Turn Away?

• “Nor clearest noon tide can that horrid pain dispel.”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “It is astonishing how our prejudices change from youth to middle age, even without any remarkable interposition of fortune; I do not say dissipate, or even dispel, which is much more doubtful -- but they change.”

  Phoebe, Junior

• “PETER GELB, GENERAL MANAGER, METROPOLITAN OPERA: In an effort to kind of dispel or break down this image that the Met is some sort of an elitist organization, we have launched a whole bunch of initiatives to connect the Met to a broader public.”

  CNN Transcript Dec 19, 2007

• “Obviously now the White House anxious to kind of dispel the notion of any tensions.”

  CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2006

• “But I think this goes just a long way to kind of dispel a lot of the accusations at Al Jazeera, that we're a tool of the Iraqi regime.”

  CNN Transcript Apr 3, 2003

• “Was he trying to kind of dispel the theory that maybe this was an act of defense on the behalf of Nathaniel Brazill?”

  CNN Transcript May 9, 2001

• “Abdallah, one of the holiest of men, whom God hath blessed with supernatural powers, such as dispel doubts and obscurity.”

  The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II

• “Rufus: And it's also I think, it's important to kind of dispel the myth that that's where you know being gay is”

  Pop Musicology

• “I always took it to be a way to kind of dispel the magic that fun can produce, rewrite the narrative to a simple one where they were in charge.”

  Boing Boing

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