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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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That waiver applies even when a treatment is unproven or off-label.—
Cindy Krischer Goodman,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Mar. 2026
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Neither are enterprise customers likely to trust unproven AI models with data security.—
Sarah Min,
CNBC,
5 Mar. 2026
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The alleged scheme is at the center of a criminal trial that started in a federal court in New York last week, days before the Mideast combat that now looms in the background.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
3 Mar. 2026
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Prosecutors said the 17-year-old — sworn in to testify under just his first name, Daniel — gave up a hard drive containing bitcoin after Halem and his alleged accomplices threatened to kill him.—
Matthew Ormseth,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Mar. 2026
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In the absence of details about the timeframe or scope of the new files to be released, their contents, at this point, are purely speculative.—
Danya Gainor,
CNN Money,
7 Mar. 2026
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Christopher Anderson, the Department of Justice lawyer representing the EPA, argued that while the agency does discount future effects in weighing regulations, that practice is not discriminatory and any link to resulting climate harms is speculative.—
Blanca Begert,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 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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Sterling has synthesized a cure, albeit an untested one, that could return Cooper to his original form –– or create more issues.—
Hunter Ingram,
Variety,
5 Mar. 2026
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Haitian Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé unveiled a major reshufflng of his cabinet on Tuesday, retaining just five ministers in a new government largely consisting of untested figures endorsed by political parties and groups that recently signed a sweeping national accord.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
4 Mar. 2026
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Consumer advocates welcomed the proposed investigation.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
20 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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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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Specifically, in the new study, the authors found that compared with previous estimates a hypothetical 1 meter of sea-level rise could put up to 37% more land below sea level, impacting 77–132 million people across the globe.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
9 Mar. 2026
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Polling throughout the winter had shown little difference between how the two Democrats performed in hypothetical matchups against likely Republican opponents, but some surveys suggested Talarico ran slightly stronger among independents.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
4 Mar. 2026
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“Unproved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unproved. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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