disprovable

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Recent Examples of disprovable Experts say easily disprovable narratives about the climate keeps circulating. Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2022 Salazar’s claims were easily disprovable. Doug Bock Clark, ProPublica, 26 Apr. 2022 Its assertions were easily disprovable. Sheera Frenkel New York Times, Star Tribune, 24 July 2021 Its assertions were easily disprovable. New York Times, 24 July 2021 The Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners and the Board of Nursing instructed the Department of Health to pursue investigations of medical professionals who made disprovable claims to patients or on social media. From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2021 But if anything is possible, then nothing is disprovable. Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2021 The attorneys all filed lawsuits in Michigan that included easily disprovable allegations of fraud, furthering concerns fomented by former President Donald Trump that the election was stolen. Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 2 Feb. 2021 The group also promotes a host of loosely connected and often disprovable theories, often using the hashtag #SaveTheChildren to circulate falsehoods. Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disprovable
Adjective
  • Whether tariffs are good policy or not is debatable.
    Vicki Abeles, Mercury News, 7 May 2025
  • What is not debatable is that the US-Ukraine minerals deal, while hollow in immediate extractive gain for the US and in many respects a Trump defeat, heralds a new age.
    Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025
Adjective
  • One fear is therefore that the Collatz problem is one of the unprovable statements of mathematics.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 25 July 2024
  • Greenwashing involves unfounded or unprovable claims of environmental sustainability.
    Marisa Garcia, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024

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“Disprovable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disprovable. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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