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Recent Examples of unproved
And the exploitation of the total resource, including unproved but technically recoverable resources, is fairly low, less than 2% per year.
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Michael Lynch, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
During the 2020 wildfires in Oregon, for example, armed men hampered firefighting, fueled by unproved rumors that antifa had set the fires.
—Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2024
Carlson promoted the unproved theory that the FBI instigated the riots in a documentary that was shown on the Fox Nation streaming service.
—Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
The Bombieri-Vinogradov theorem, which is still widely used, instantly proved many of the results that had previously relied on the unproved generalized Riemann hypothesis.
—Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
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Michael Lynch, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
During the 2020 wildfires in Oregon, for example, armed men hampered firefighting, fueled by unproved rumors that antifa had set the fires.
—Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2024
Carlson promoted the unproved theory that the FBI instigated the riots in a documentary that was shown on the Fox Nation streaming service.
—Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
The Bombieri-Vinogradov theorem, which is still widely used, instantly proved many of the results that had previously relied on the unproved generalized Riemann hypothesis.
—Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unproved
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Hamdan, however, will have his work cut out for him with the Dolphins, a team with a quarterback coming off a dismal season in Tua Tagovailoa and an unproven second-year player in Quinn Ewers.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
13 Feb. 2026
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Right-handers Chase Dollander, Ryan Feltner, Tanner Gordon, McCade Brown and Gabriel Hughes (who has yet to make his big-league debut) are still relatively raw and unproven.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
6 Feb. 2026
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According to dispatch recordings reviewed by The Sacramento Bee, Choudri was arrested after officers were called to the home for an alleged fight between Starostyuk and Choudri’s 17-year-old daughter.—
Lia Russell,
Sacbee.com,
17 Feb. 2026
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Some viewers took issue with her response, seeing it as an improper handling of alleged misconduct.—
Bailey Bujnosek,
InStyle,
17 Feb. 2026
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To my eye, Zurek has almost tied up the loose ends that have been confounding physics for 100 years, without invoking any substantially new or speculative assumptions.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
13 Feb. 2026
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Deutsche Bank’s Reid noted that much of the selling driven by these anecdotes was purely speculative.—
Jim Edwards,
Fortune,
13 Feb. 2026
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The presumed reasoning behind why the film was ignored is multilayered.—
Marcus Jones,
IndieWire,
8 Aug. 2025
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So many of them were untested by the heat and danger, the din and violence and fear, of the battlefield.—
Kostya Kennedy,
Time,
16 Feb. 2026
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McCarthy warned that being too quick to bring untested criminal cases against political adversaries risks damaging institutional legitimacy regardless of which party is in power.—
Kaelan Deese,
The Washington Examiner,
15 Feb. 2026
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The proposed four-story, 105-room hotel would be located on four lots immediately north of AJ’s Pizza, on the opposite side of Blackwell Lane, sandwiched between Matson Drive and Village Point.—
Jim Woods,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Feb. 2026
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Its proposed 15% cap, the administration estimated, could save the government $4 billion annually.—
Evan Bush,
NBC news,
4 Feb. 2026
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Projections of economic gains from major sporting events are typically optimistic, euphoric, chimerical or conjectural.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2025
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That statistic is somewhat conjectural, since the vast majority of rapes in India are apparently not reported.—
Mark Jenkins,
Washington Post,
7 Nov. 2023
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This isn’t a distant hypothetical.—
Suzette Valladares,
Oc Register,
15 Feb. 2026
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Responsibility is a group effort For Ahmet Öksüz, chairman of the Istanbul Textile and Raw Materials Exporters Association, the need for systemic transformation is no longer some future-facing hypothetical, but rather an existential imperative that demands both innovation and conscience.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Unproved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unproved. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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