How to Use provable in a Sentence
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Sorry, peanut gallery, but that’s not provable.
—Steve Buckley, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026
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Love is more a mood, a way of life, than a provable fact like the force of gravity.
—Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 31 Mar. 2024
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But what is visible to the public eye may not be provable in front of a judge.
—Ido Baum, Foreign Affairs, 3 Jan. 2013
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One of the key ways to do this will be to focus on concrete and provable actions.
—Catherine Erdly, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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No votes should be counted from the state of Nevada if that turns out to be the provable case.
—Matt Ford, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2020
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Whether or not this is ultimately true in a provable sense remains to be seen.
—Richard Pallardy, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2021
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Trusting the results depends on whether there is provable widespread fraud.
—Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
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The challenge for Smith will be to confine it to a few easily provable counts.
—Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2023
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The company plainly knows where the provable returns live.
—Gabriel Alin Zainescu, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
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If the evidence presented is provable, then the charges will prevail.
—Star Tribune, 23 Nov. 2020
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But once Crain gets those records, probable become provable and that would be the sort of thing that might get people fired.
—Kyle Whitmire | [email protected], al, 26 June 2023
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The concerns under the law about this anti-conservative bias are not provable.
—Ariana Garcia, Chron, 28 Sep. 2021
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The museum’s failures of due diligence were deplorable, Bogdanos told me, but fell short of a provable crime.
—Ariel Sabar, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
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The provable scarcity of Bitcoin ensures that new buyers will enter the market.
—Korok Ray, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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The value of NFTs is assured by their provable scarcity, which drives demand.
—Lawrence Wintermeyer, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
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Other statements, however, might be provable in principle, but only with proofs that are too long to ever write down.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 11 May 2026
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His defense is the most provable with paperwork and his attorney, Craig Robertson, is top shelf.
—John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2021
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The risk of wearing counterfeit sunscreen (with a provable lack of sun protection) is too serious to ignore.
—Morgan Fargo, refinery29.com, 4 Mar. 2024
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But on these facts alone, many prosecutors would simply charge an easily provable assault, and forego the potential hate crime charge.
—Douglas S. Lavine, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2024
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And therefore, the parallel postulate’s not provable from the other axioms.
—Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
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The task is to let autonomy operate inside limits that are clear, enforceable and provable.
—Najwa Aaraj, Fortune, 23 June 2026
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NFTs represent something unique that has provable ownership rights.
—Andrew Shirley, CNN, 2 Apr. 2021
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Department guidelines call for prosecutors to seek a guilty plea to the most serious, readily provable count.
—Christian Schneider, National Review, 22 June 2023
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For my coverage of AI safety and the need for rigorous and provable safeguards, see the link here, for example.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
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Fascinating, because a lot of this also dates back to those very deep concepts in mathematics about what’s provable and unprovable.
—Quanta Magazine, 1 Aug. 2024
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That’s unequivocal and provable.
—Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
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The Rooney Rule, in a sudden and seemingly provable way, might finally be revealed as an optics-massaging sham.
—Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Feb. 2022
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Montemerlo wrote that other communities have made the same claim, spread by their local newspapers, and those stories are likewise not provable.
—Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 24 Dec. 2020
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Justice Department plea guidelines call for the government to seek a guilty plea to the most serious readily provable offense.
—The Editors, National Review, 21 June 2023
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The ability of dogs to communicate with us is empirically provable.
—Richard Pallardy, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2021
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