unproven

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Recent Examples of unproven The players the Celtics added to fill those holes were, as Stevens noted, largely unproven at the NBA level. Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 29 Sep. 2025 Altman himself has cautioned that too much money is flooding into unproven AI ventures, while Zuckerberg has compared today’s infrastructure frenzy to past bubbles. Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025 The depth beyond the top six is also relatively unproven at the NHL level and has no Stanley Cup Playoffs experience. Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 28 Sep. 2025 Bobrovsky has a track record of building a solid rapport with his backups — and Panthers backup goaltenders have a track record as of late of coming to the team and flourishing despite being either unproven or having inconsistent careers to that point. Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 28 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unproven
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unproven
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • Digital scanning of human actors, for the purposes of using their likenesses in film and TV projects is another tricky area for the unions given how untested the legal questions are, the attorneys agreed.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Licensing third-party films — particularly those in later pay windows — offers more predictable economics and higher margins than producing new, untested series.
    Alejandro Rojas, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The report said the Hamas Interior Ministry had accused a militia of attacking its forces, while members of the Doghmush clan said Hamas had exploited the ceasefire to target them over alleged cooperation with Israel.
    Emma Bussey , Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The demonstrators have brought up a range of issues, including poverty and the cost of living, access to tertiary education, and alleged corruption and embezzlement of public funds by government officials, as well as their families and associates.
    NPR, NPR, 13 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
  • The scientists behind the project hope those crystals will interact with the hypothetical dark matter particles known as WIMPs.
    Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Ultimately, Bayless is going off of a hypothetical scenario that cannot be proven or disproven.
    MSNBC Newsweek, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 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

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“Unproven.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unproven. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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