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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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The popular painkiller has sparked controversy after Trump in September promoted an unproven link between Tylenol and a rise in autism among children.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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However, this technology is unproven, meaning more efficient cooling systems on Earth are still required.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Nov. 2025
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Alongside Tomer-Yerushalmi, other senior legal officials in the military prosecutor’s office are also implicated in the leak and its alleged cover-up.—
Tal Shalev,
CNN Money,
4 Nov. 2025
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Court records indicate this was Crouch’s ninth arrest within the county – the most recent being one day before he was slapped with a higher bond amount over the alleged assault charges.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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The overall message from Amazon reflected a familiar impulse in Corporate America to reduce headcount in the face of rising prices, an unpredictable trade war and a potential (though still largely speculative) artificial-intelligence revolution.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
28 Oct. 2025
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While federal grand juries operate in secrecy, any connection between their proceedings and political claims remains speculative unless confirmed by official sources.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
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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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In 1967, he was sentenced to life in prison — his confession to the 13 strangulations remaining legally untested.—
Jane LaCroix,
PEOPLE,
27 Oct. 2025
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Moreover, doubts over untested Chinese weaponry have evaporated following their successful deployment in Pakistan's confrontation with India in early May, when Chinese J-10C and JF-17 fighter jets shot down up to six Indian jets.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
23 Oct. 2025
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These census blocks can then be aggregated by both the current and proposed maps.—
Ramon Padilla,
USA Today,
30 Oct. 2025
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The study says the proposed four-spacecraft constellation could spot these tornadoes on the fly.—
Elizabeth Howell,
Space.com,
10 Oct. 2025
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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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In non-hypothetical basketball news, the episode also dives into the WNBA’s moment of unprecedented growth.—
J.J. Bailey,
New York Times,
2 Nov. 2025
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Early last month, text messages from 2022 show Jay Jones, the Democratic nominee for attorney general and a former member of the Virginia legislature, describing hypothetical violence against a political opponent.—
Jahd Khalil,
NPR,
2 Nov. 2025
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“Unproved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unproved. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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