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
  • That, coupled with e-commerce and social media algorithms, can result in people seeing a huge amount of content about unproven treatments.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Sarepta, which laid off more than one-third of its workforce last year after multiple patient deaths derailed its top-selling gene therapy for muscular dystrophy, has staked its future on a pipeline of unproven treatments for related conditions.
    Damian Garde, STAT, 25 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • No further documentation was provided to show Hernandez’s alleged behavior.
    Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Washington has a criminal history, including a 2012 guilty plea for his role in an alleged check fraud conspiracy with his twin brother.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 24 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • These aren’t speculative ideas.
    Brian Barlow, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2026
  • While this move is largely speculative at present, the strategic importance of the Middle East to the dollar’s role as the world’s reserve currency should not be underestimated, according to Deutsche.
    Joseph Wilkins, CNBC, 25 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • The presumed reasoning behind why the film was ignored is multilayered.
    Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 8 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • At issue was whether Reed waited too long to file a lawsuit arguing that untested crime scene evidence could prove his innocence.
    Faith Bugenhagen, Austin American Statesman, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The issue before the high court then was whether Reed, sentenced to death more than 25 years ago, waited too long to file his lawsuit claiming that untested crime-scene evidence would exonerate him.
    CBS News, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • But Melanson said that the proposed seven-day data retention period in the bill does not give them enough time to investigate and solve crimes.
    Sara Bedigian, Hartford Courant, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The proposed route, once envisioned as stretching 15 miles, has been shortened and reconfigured, and could roll out by 2032.
    Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 10 Mar. 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
  • Instead of posing questions about geography or world affairs, the test asked him to tackle hypothetical situations, from the frustrating to the dangerous.
    David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Focus on the craft in front of you without thinking of its hypothetical audience.
    Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2026

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“Unproved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unproved. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.

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