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- adjective Capable of being
debunked .
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More than 4,400 U.S. soldiers also needlessly died in a war based on lies, from bogus tales of Iraq's ties to al-Qaeda to claims about non-existent weapons of mass destruction that were easily debunkable at the time -- had anyone in a position of power been interested in doing so.
Medea Benjamin: Only 'Success' in Iraq Is That US Troops are Leaving Medea Benjamin 2011
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More than 4,400 U.S. soldiers also needlessly died in a war based on lies, from bogus tales of Iraq's ties to al-Qaeda to claims about non-existent weapons of mass destruction that were easily debunkable at the time -- had anyone in a position of power been interested in doing so.
Medea Benjamin: Only 'Success' in Iraq Is That US Troops are Leaving Medea Benjamin 2011
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Along the way, the media has had a difficult time confronting these smears and debunking the debunkable.
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Along the way, the media has had a difficult time confronting these smears and debunking the debunkable.
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THAT is debatable and debunkable by anyone who has studied the history of the last few centuries.
Obsession DVD Distributors: Would We Try To Influence Election? Never! 2009
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Seems too easily debunkable and they have to know that Clinton will be expecting them this time.
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The arguments of judges and interrogators at heresy trials were of a piece with those hammered home in propaganda tracts, journalistic pamphlets, devotional writings and a concerted homiletic campaign: the idea that the Marian authorities were suspicious of preaching is another debunkable myth, as is what Duffy terms A.
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I won't waste breath -- or risk carpal tunnel syndrome -- trying to debunk the Kennedy/Oswald/Ruby conspiracy because the great thing about conspiracies is that they are completely un-debunkable.
John Ridley: The Death of Oswald, the Birth of Conspiracies 2008
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If organ harvesting is real, then the FLG may have made a mistake with this accusation because it proved readily debunkable.
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I picked it apart quite well, but it is debunkable.
I want to hurt you. I want to punish you. I want you to feel pain. CC 2008
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