unproven

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Recent Examples of unproven While unproven, the consensus is that ransomware is the most likely explanation, especially given the sharp rise in attacks against the food and retail sectors. Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025 Underwood may be unproven as a sporting director, but his wider reputation as an executive has been on an upward trajectory for a decade. Beren Cross, New York Times, 16 June 2025 The new appointees to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices include Dr. Robert Malone, the former mRNA researcher who has promoted unproven and alternative treatments for measles and covid-19. Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 12 June 2025 But the economic Jenga tower the Trump administration has constructed is precariously balanced on a host of economic caveats and unproven theories. David Goldman, CNN Money, 5 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for unproven
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unproven
Adjective
  • Berry recorded an impairment charge of $44 million related to unproved properties affected by California Senate Bill No. 1137, which restricts new drilling activities within 3,200 feet of sensitive receptors.
    Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Rhetoric surrounding an audit of aid for Kyiv has amplified unproved accusations that Ukrainian officials have siphoned off cash intended for the war effort, and could undermine other requests for assistance.
    Russel Honoré, Newsweek, 5 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Greif: Though Houston ended last season with the West’s second-best record, that seed didn’t scare anybody entering the postseason; the Rockets were too inexperienced and untested and lost in the first round.
    Andrew Greif, NBC news, 3 July 2025
  • Skipping this governance checkpoint essentially means letting people create powerful and untested tools for decision making, which could be disastrous to an organization’s future success.
    Larry English, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • Assets unrelated to the alleged crime, however, couldn't be touched.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 1 July 2025
  • Days after the alleged incident, Jolie filed for divorce.
    Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • Even with the recent resurgence in speculative stocks, the Schwab US Large-Cap Value ETF (SCHV), is outperforming its growth sibling, the Schwab US Large-Cap Growth ETF (SCHG) +8.35% versus +4.34% year-to-date.
    James Berman, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • Any financial instruments mentioned herein are speculative in nature and may involve risk to principal and interest.
    Katie Stockton, CNBC, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, civil society groups, ranging from the Electronic Frontier Foundation to the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, argue that those harms are not hypothetical, but are here now.
    Paulo Carvão, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
  • The challenge here was to think about a hypothetical world unique and singular to the world of the film – neither past, present nor future.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 3 July 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
  • But the possible consequences of an Iranian nuclear capability are largely conjectural (save for one: nobody would think of invading Iran anymore).
    Barry R. Posen, Foreign Affairs, 7 Sep. 2010

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“Unproven.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unproven. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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