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Recent Examples of unproven
Though the 49ers were criticized for hinging their champion-caliber roster on an unproven kicker, Moody was mostly solid as a rookie, making 21 of 25 kicks in the regular season.
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Matt Barrows, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
His activities over the past decade are a mystery, and at this point, unproven allegations.
—Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2025
Also unproven is whether companies will comply with it across their international product lines or simply make specific EU-compliant products.
—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 2 Jan. 2025
Like many other tech companies in the twenty-first century, Spotify spent its first decade claiming to disrupt an archaic industry, scaling up as quickly as possible, and attracting venture capitalists to an unproven business model.
—Liz Pelly, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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Matt Barrows, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
His activities over the past decade are a mystery, and at this point, unproven allegations.
—Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2025
Also unproven is whether companies will comply with it across their international product lines or simply make specific EU-compliant products.
—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 2 Jan. 2025
Like many other tech companies in the twenty-first century, Spotify spent its first decade claiming to disrupt an archaic industry, scaling up as quickly as possible, and attracting venture capitalists to an unproven business model.
—Liz Pelly, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unproven
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And the exploitation of the total resource, including unproved but technically recoverable resources, is fairly low, less than 2% per year.—
Michael Lynch,
Forbes,
3 Dec. 2024
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During the 2020 wildfires in Oregon, for example, armed men hampered firefighting, fueled by unproved rumors that antifa had set the fires.—
Patrik Jonsson,
The Christian Science Monitor,
18 Oct. 2024
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Reality check: Where vaccine critics' arguments completely fall apart is in their assertions about safety issues, and the idea that any vaccines are untested, unmonitored drugs with overall negative health impacts.—
Caitlin Owens,
Axios,
17 Jan. 2025
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But during the 1990s, cities slashed funding for collecting rape evidence, and literal mold grew on Goddard’s invention, with hundreds of thousands of untested kits piling up.—
Cindi Leive,
New York Times,
14 Jan. 2025
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The alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, was arrested in Pakistan in 2003, while Osama bin Laden, whose Al Qaeda terrorist group planned the attacks, was killed there by U.S. forces in 2011.—
Dean Pan,
NBC News,
16 Jan. 2025
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But multiple states have sued TikTok for alleged harm to kids via its addictive features.—
April Rubin,
Axios,
16 Jan. 2025
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The two sides will stop fighting for 42 days, with the aim (again, speculative) of making that cease-fire permanent and ending the war.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
16 Jan. 2025
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Yes, but: Those plans are dependent on Cleveland-Cliffs acquisition of U.S. Steel and are still only speculative.—
Sam Allard,
Axios,
15 Jan. 2025
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Kuzma was posed that hypothetical Sunday night, after the loss to the Kings.—
Josh Robbins,
The Athletic,
20 Jan. 2025
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The vast majority of cosmologists believe all of these phenomena can be explained through the presence of dark matter, a hypothetical form of matter that is massive, electrically neutral and hardly, if ever, interacts with normal matter.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
20 Jan. 2025
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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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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 30 Jan. 2025.
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