unproven

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Recent Examples of unproven Many Mennonite families turned to a prominent anti-vaccine doctor who offered unproven alternative treatments. arkansasonline.com, 8 July 2025 Direct link unproven, but understaffing likely played a role. Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 July 2025 My bigger reason to dial down this percentage, though, is the unproven starting quarterback. Blake Toppmeyer, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025 Many tools are either cost-prohibitive, unproven, or designed for a healthcare experience that caters to the few. Sindhya Valloppillil, Forbes.com, 1 July 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
  • This should come as no surprise, but an untested rookie who won’t turn 19 until late December is going to have more weaknesses than strengths in his debut season.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • The males were later determined to be visiting baseball coaches from another state, and video surfaced of the alleged incident.
    Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 14 July 2025
  • Boelter’s wife previously released a statement through her lawyer condemning the alleged attack, according to Fox 9.
    Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 14 July 2025
Adjective
  • While estimates for the amount of guidance in existence or birthed yearly may not be as speculative as extrasolar planetary life, the magnitude remains bathed in the radiation of indifference.
    Clyde Wayne Crews Jr, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
  • Butch Dill/Getty Images While the report is purely speculative at this point, Saban unretiring to get back into coaching wouldn't be a complete shock.
    Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 July 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 19 Jul. 2025.

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