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Recent Examples of unproved
The federal government is, in effect, suddenly being run like an A.I. startup; Musk, an unelected billionaire, a maestro of flying cars and trips to Mars, has made the United States of America his grandest test case yet for an unproved and unregulated new technology.
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Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2025
And the exploitation of the total resource, including unproved but technically recoverable resources, is fairly low, less than 2% per year.
—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
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Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2025
And the exploitation of the total resource, including unproved but technically recoverable resources, is fairly low, less than 2% per year.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unproved
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The size of the launcher, the novel and unproven approach, and uncertain funding levels suggest that the 2027 timeline for a debut flight is very ambitious.—
Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
8 May 2026
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The search was prompted by soil vapor sampling, an experimental technology that detected volatile organic compounds potentially associated with decomposing human remains — though the method remains unproven in criminal investigations.—
Richard Winton,
Los Angeles Times,
6 May 2026
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In March, Israel dropped charges against five soldiers who had been accused of beating and sodomizing a Palestinian detainee in an alleged assault partially caught on camera.—
Sam Mednick,
Los Angeles Times,
13 May 2026
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The court documents also revealed alleged phone records between Williams and Tyler Huff, who was Tobias and Da'Liyla's father, and who was in prison at the time.—
Samira Asma-Sadeque,
PEOPLE,
12 May 2026
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Like other collectible alternative assets, such as fine art, rare watches and classic cars, cask investing is a high-risk, speculative, long-term bet on a largely unregulated, illiquid asset.—
Hugh Leask,
CNBC,
9 May 2026
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Plans by Becknell are to build the speculative structure, to be called Northwind North Business Park, and utilize it for light industrial businesses to rent.—
Deborah Laverty,
Chicago Tribune,
8 May 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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In response, Trump swapped in new global tariffs that relied on then-untested legal authority under the Trade Act of 1974.—
Elisabeth Buchwald,
CNN Money,
7 May 2026
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The campaign aims to eliminate the backlog of hundreds of thousands of untested rape kits sitting in storage across America, providing closure for victims.—
Denise Petski,
Deadline,
1 May 2026
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This summer and fall, SDG&E plans to host in-person open houses for people to ask direct questions and find out more about the project and its proposed route.—
Rob Nikolewski,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 May 2026
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The proposed five-year study compared outcomes between infants vaccinated at birth and those vaccinated at six weeks of age.—
Uzma Rentia,
STAT,
27 Apr. 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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The prosecutor also asked W to opine as to whether certain hypothetical facts, which closely resembled the facts in the cases involving P and C, were consistent with grooming behavior.—
Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
9 May 2026
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The question was, in essence, hypothetical.—
Maddie Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
8 May 2026
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“Unproved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unproved. Accessed 15 May. 2026.
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