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  • verb Present participle of dispel.

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Examples

  • At this point, I have a staggering amount of data, and it's been invaluable in dispelling myth, particularly in assisting me to name and claim classism and racism as it permeates my family culture.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • At this point, I have a staggering amount of data, and it's been invaluable in dispelling myth, particularly in assisting me to name and claim classism and racism as it permeates my family culture.

    Great Scots 2009

  • I would call it dispelling a specific natural explanation.

    Approaches Determine Outcomes 2009

  • And America is getting to know Obama better (as in dispelling all the republican rumors and distortions).

    Jeb Bush Joins McCain in Mexico - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Images portraying individuals with disabilities also as parents, teachers, sales people, managers, business owners, doctors/nurses or lawyers, would aid in dispelling the helpless/dependent stereotype often facing people with disabilities.

    Do It Myself Blog – Glenda Watson Hyatt » 2007 » April 2007

  • True, I have lately suffered myself to be somewhat engaged here and there by a few jovial lads, who assist me in dispelling the anxious thoughts, which my perplexed situation excites.

    The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton: A Novel Founded on Fact 1797

  • Thus, while the episode operates as a scene of instruction for the eponymous protagonist, the particular and necessarily stable sense of things on which Knightley’s instructions are predicated, is ultimately insufficient in dispelling a “social density that is unsortable, unexplainable, and [...] unanswerable to any discursive formation.”

    Introduction to the Forum on the Box Hill 2000

  • On her way, she stepped into the I Hung Yüan, to look up Pao-yü and have a friendly hobnob with him, with the idea of dispelling her mid-day lassitude; but, contrary to her expectations, the moment she put her foot into the court, she did not so much as catch the caw of a crow.

    Hung Lou Meng 2003

  • On her way, she stepped into the I Hung Yüan, to look up Pao-yü and have a friendly hobnob with him, with the idea of dispelling her mid-day lassitude; but, contrary to her expectations, the moment she put her foot into the court, she did not so much as catch the caw of a crow.

    Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao

  • Do you think you're doing the community a service by "dispelling" this "myth" in this fashion?

    Netvouz - new bookmarks 2010

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