unproved

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for unproved
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unproved
Adjective
  • In an email to the AP last year, Saphier said Trump’s advice to pregnant women not to take Tylenol, which promoted unproven ties between the medication and autism, was overly simplistic.
    Ali Swenson, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2026
  • Marshall and Bonner have talent, but are raw and unproven NFL players, which is how this entire unit can be described.
    Omar Kelly May 1, Miami Herald, 1 May 2026
Adjective
  • There are even stories about an alleged Spotify playlist Russini sent Vrabel in 2022 to cheer him up, while coaching the Tennessee Titans.
    Bobby Burack OutKick, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Wallace has supported Brown during his assault trial In May 2025, Brown was arrested in England in connection with an alleged assault at a nightclub two years earlier.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 28 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • But as the novel slips into a more speculative mode, Nora is transported to an asylum in the French countryside of 1946.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 May 2026
  • Six months ago, people arguing that AI was a bubble were pointing to real-world facts, whereas people arguing against the bubble hypothesis were making speculative promises about the future.
    Rogé Karma, The Atlantic, 1 May 2026
Adjective
  • The presumed reasoning behind why the film was ignored is multilayered.
    Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 8 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Still, the theory remains untested.
    Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Others express skepticism over applying developing, arguably flawed and still relatively untested AI technology to criminal justice, with its far-reaching societal consequences.
    Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • 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
  • The proposed clinic would be developed in partnership with the Independence Blue Cross Foundation.
    Eva Andersen, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Projections of economic gains from major sporting events are typically optimistic, euphoric, chimerical or conjectural.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2025
  • That statistic is somewhat conjectural, since the vast majority of rapes in India are apparently not reported.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
Adjective
  • Eventually, Patterson acknowledged that this hypothetical real man was just a description of himself.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 3 May 2026
  • More than a few of the teams included in that hypothetical opening round are from conferences whose champions have pulled off NCAA Tournament upsets in recent years.
    Ralph D. Russo, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026

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“Unproved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unproved. Accessed 8 May. 2026.

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