How to Use provably in a Sentence

provably

adverb
  • That is, all its statements should be provably true or false.
    — Joseph Howlett, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Not least of these is that code can be produced in a way that is provably correct.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2021
  • The jump from a provably false premise to physical attacks doesn't require skill.
    — Timothy Egan New York Times, Star Tribune, 28 June 2021
  • The many moments where the president said things that were blatantly, provably false?
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Any contrary assertion is provably false.
    — Mikai Bruce, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Equipped with this, your teams will be better able to create, place and measure a more provably effective campaign.
    — Tim Ringel, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Other parts of his story, prosecutors said, were provably false.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2022
  • Since the area of a circle depends on pi and the area of a square doesn’t, a solution was provably impossible.
    — Stephen Ornes, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Source of income does not include any income that is not provably from legal activities.
    — Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Pretty sure making provably false statements to a judge is unethical.
    — Mackenzie Schmidt, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024
  • In other words, the numbers of null and meager sets that must be combined to produce a non-negligible set are not provably equal.
    — Martin Goldstern, Scientific American, 16 Aug. 2021
  • But some of the biggest things allegedly found to support Conformity Gate are provably false.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The unchecked behavior and provably false content on platforms like YouTube have to be addressed and removed.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 25 Jan. 2022
  • This is a provably dangerous position that cannot be taken seriously.
    — Jude Clemente, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
  • There’s a separate section for dice games like craps, a separate section of the live dealer action, and a separate section for provably fair games.
    — Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Either way, Maryland voters deserve an election system that is not only fair but provably accurate.
    — Reardon Sullivan, Baltimore Sun, 19 Feb. 2026
  • In a world populated by these oracles, P and NP would be provably different.
    — Ben Brubaker, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2025
  • And, look, President Biden in his remarks on Friday said three things that were demonstrably, provably untrue.
    — NBC News, 22 Aug. 2021
  • Trump’s incendiary comments also threatened to create new headaches for Twitter, which has sought to clamp down on the spread of provably false content on its platform.
    — Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2020
  • The assertions supporting the lab leak theory are not only conjectures, but in many cases provably wrong conjectures.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2021
  • That’s exceedingly unlikely to happen by chance, just as guessing the right pattern to fake a digital signature is provably hopeless.
    — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Anyone who dumps all of biological science in favor of provably wrong antiscience should raise alarm bells in your head, and their claims should be examined with an even more skeptical eye.
    — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 29 July 2011
  • Non-fungible tokens allow people to buy provably original versions of everything from digital art to pop albums.
    — Caitlin Ostroff, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2021
  • To qualify as defamation, Ray J’s statements would have to go beyond merely hostile opinions and instead assert a provably false statement.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Their argument is legally flawed, morally deficient and provably inconsistent.
    — Scott Maxwell, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The suit alleges that the recent comments fit a pattern of sensationalized and inflammatory comments from Ray J over the years.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Because Bitcoin is provably scarce, new adopters will always know that the limited supply will keep the price higher in the future and will not lead to a collapse in price, as can happen in other assets like gold.
    — Korok Ray, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Emerging regulations may dictate how the customer data is stored and transferred, whether consent is needed before the data is collected, and whether the tool is provably fair in its predictions.
    — Beena Ammananth, Fortune, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Earlier this year, the Israeli government enlisted the help of the Manhattan district attorney’s office to make the case that the coin was provably stolen.
    — Graham Bowley, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2022
  • What results is guided evolution, somewhere between random mutation and provably useful enhancement.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 2025

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