unproved

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for unproved
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unproved
Adjective
  • Newly acquired Anfernee Simons is a bucket getter with potential on defense, but the depth is young and unproven, while the center position has been completely altered.
    Stan Son, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Bello had a solid year, but Payton Tolle and Connelly Early will likely have bigger roles next year and are still relatively unproven at the big league level.
    Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • First, despite tabloid headlines about Leto, such noise doesn’t factor into moviegoers’ decisions to buy or not buy a ticket; it could be argued most were not even in the know of the June Air Mail exposé on his alleged behavior.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Soon after King's arrest last week, Philadelphia authorities said other alleged victims of King have come forward about their experience with him.
    Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The day seems to be controlled by a collapse in crypto and more speculative names.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
  • These concerns stem from high levels of speculative investment—totaling hundreds of billions of dollars—in artificial intelligence with few manifest payoffs, as well as the market’s top-heavy structure, with significant value concentrated in a handful of AI-bullish tech stocks.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The presumed reasoning behind why the film was ignored is multilayered.
    Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 8 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Leading rushers Waymond Jordan and Eli Sanders will be sidelined Saturday due to injuries, leaving a largely untested group of backs to take the field.
    Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
  • But the potential catastrophe of famine, brought about by an untested planet-wide experiment to only slightly increase our electrical production capacity, seems like a cost-heavy, benefit-light endeavor.
    Big Think, Big Think, 15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The study says the proposed four-spacecraft constellation could spot these tornadoes on the fly.
    Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Stark has also played a role in other city housing projects, such as expanding access to accessory dwelling units and assisting with the proposed Renter's Council.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 15 Sep. 2025
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
  • Let’s take a hypothetical scenario in which someone’s home is valued at $400,000, but burns down exactly halfway through the year.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Oct. 2025
  • California Governor Gavin Newsom has gained ground on Vice President JD Vance in a new hypothetical poll of the 2028 presidential race.
    Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Unproved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unproved. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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