unproven

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Recent Examples of unproven 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 These are allegations only and remain unproven. Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 29 Apr. 2026 On social media, posts about raw milk have surged in recent months, often touting unproven claims about its health benefits. Laura Ungar, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for unproven
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unproven
Adjective
  • What’s thus far unproved — and the topic of fierce debate — is whether algorithms like ACE2 can keep up over the long term.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 20 Feb. 2026
  • What Happens Next The lawsuit’s allegations are unproved, and no court has made findings on the merits.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
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
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • The presumed reasoning behind why the film was ignored is multilayered.
    Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 8 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • The question was, in essence, hypothetical.
    Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 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

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“Unproven.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unproven. Accessed 11 May. 2026.

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