unproven

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Recent Examples of unproven During the Covid-19 pandemic, misinformation led people to decline vaccines, reject public health guidance, and turn to unproven treatments. Ava Dzurenda, STAT, 24 Apr. 2026 The interceptors, which are designed to destroy enemy missiles outside the Earth’s atmosphere, are a key but unproven component of Golden Dome. Anthony Capaccio, Bloomberg, 24 Apr. 2026 Although Purdy is holding down the starting position and Mac Jones is entering the second and final year of a cheap backup contract, the players behind them are unproven. Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 23 Apr. 2026 After making it to the Stanley Cup Final two years in a row with a veteran group, this year’s model offers plenty of youth and some unproven rookies in prominent places. Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for unproven
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unproven
Adjective
  • What’s thus far unproved — and the topic of fierce debate — is whether algorithms like ACE2 can keep up over the long term.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 20 Feb. 2026
  • 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
Adjective
  • Still, the theory remains untested.
    Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Others express skepticism over applying developing, arguably flawed and still relatively untested AI technology to criminal justice, with its far-reaching societal consequences.
    Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • There are even stories about an alleged Spotify playlist Russini sent Vrabel in 2022 to cheer him up, while coaching the Tennessee Titans.
    Bobby Burack OutKick, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Wallace has supported Brown during his assault trial In May 2025, Brown was arrested in England in connection with an alleged assault at a nightclub two years earlier.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 28 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Developers routinely file speculative interconnection requests for projects that never get built, flooding queues with phantom demand.
    Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The original ordinance was intended to prevent speculative demolition so that a developer could not tear down a house without approval to build a new one.
    Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The presumed reasoning behind why the film was ignored is multilayered.
    Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 8 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • None of that damage is hypothetical.
    Jon Duffy, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The killing of Comperatore adds another dead body to the hypothetical stage directions, or else marks things going hideously off-script, still without breaking the surrounding secrecy.
    Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The proposed five-year study compared outcomes between infants vaccinated at birth and those vaccinated at six weeks of age.
    Uzma Rentia, STAT, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The proposed clinic would be developed in partnership with the Independence Blue Cross Foundation.
    Eva Andersen, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
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 3 May. 2026.

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