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Recent Examples of unproven
Losing Sproat stings as a player the Mets drafted twice and developed into a big-league starter, but the right-hander out of the University of Florida is still unproven.
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Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 22 Jan. 2026
Three other children — ages 12 to 17 — were suspected to have been killed by the same suspect, though the links were unproven.
—Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 22 Jan. 2026
Don’t jump into anything unproven just to be spontaneous.
—Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 20 Jan. 2026
Kennedy has also promoted unproven treatments, including leucovorin, a synthetic form of vitamin B9 or folate, which the body needs to make healthy blood cells.
—Berkeley Lovelace Jr, NBC news, 20 Jan. 2026
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Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 22 Jan. 2026
Three other children — ages 12 to 17 — were suspected to have been killed by the same suspect, though the links were unproven.
—Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 22 Jan. 2026
Don’t jump into anything unproven just to be spontaneous.
—Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 20 Jan. 2026
Kennedy has also promoted unproven treatments, including leucovorin, a synthetic form of vitamin B9 or folate, which the body needs to make healthy blood cells.
—Berkeley Lovelace Jr, NBC news, 20 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unproven
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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
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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
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Gone was a strong cast of older teammates who helped produce 47 wins and two regional titles in his first two varsity seasons, leaving Mordini to lead a team with several largely untested players.—
Steve Reaven,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Jan. 2026
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Two years ago the Red Sox rotation was young and untested, with Crawford, Brayan Bello and Tanner Houck leading a group that lacked any semblance of depth.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
24 Jan. 2026
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The alleged perpetrator — whom local police identified as 55-year-old Anthony Kazmierczak — was immediately apprehended and was booked into Hennepin County Jail for third degree assault, the Minneapolis Police Department told CBS News.—
Caitlin Yilek,
CBS News,
28 Jan. 2026
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An honor council, comprised of administrators, teachers, and members of the student government, would sit in judgment on cases of alleged cheating.—
Nell Freudenberger,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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The roughly 920,000-square-foot space was built in 2023, with Port KC help, as a speculative warehouse.—
Chris Higgins,
Kansas City Star,
24 Jan. 2026
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This is not a fundamental reassessment but a speculative rush preceding a highly dilutive financing occurrence.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 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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Justices posed various hypothetical questions throughout and, at times, got into tense lines of questioning while trying to understand the attorneys’ arguments and what previous cases reflect about this one.—
Becca Savransky,
Idaho Statesman,
13 Jan. 2026
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Hartnett suggested the hypothetical wasn’t necessarily what her side was arguing.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
13 Jan. 2026
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In the time following 9/11, even conservatives voiced skepticism of the proposed Department of Homeland Security, writes Ta-Nehisi Coates.—
Ta-Nehisi Coates,
Vanity Fair,
26 Jan. 2026
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These territorial thorns aside, Zelensky has said a proposed three-way split of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant between the US, Russia and Ukraine remains a big stumbling block.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
21 Jan. 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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“Unproven.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unproven. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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