How to Use unprovable in a Sentence

unprovable

adjective
  • Many of the dossier’s more lurid claims proved false or unprovable.
    — Mihir Zaveri, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2020
  • But then this longer list of axioms would also lead to true but unprovable statements.
    — Gregory Barber, Quanta Magazine, 20 June 2025
  • Think through every case to see why this is an example of a true, but unprovable statement.
    — Dave Linkletter, Popular Mechanics, 28 Jan. 2022
  • But that could also have been said for the politicized filing of unprovable homicide charges.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 24 Sep. 2020
  • If one unprovable accusation doesn’t suffice, why not produce a second, or third?
    — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2018
  • Because if a group of people were to gather there for that purpose, then that would be totally fine and not completely unprovable.
    — Dan Hyman, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2022
  • But skeptics say that without the original document, the story is unprovable.
    — Virginia Brown, Charlotte Observer, 14 May 2025
  • And every neighborhood kid had some ambiguous, completely unprovable Mafia tale to tell.
    — David Harsanyi, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Without that data, the patterns become invisible — or at least, unprovable.
    — Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • The second show is the one that accepts that, best case, Cameron's crusade is unprovable and actually tries to figure out what's spurring Cameron.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Most of the accusations are unproven as yet, or unprovable, but they are widely accepted in the current believe-the-accusers moment.
    — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Indeed, Parks begins with an unprovable yet also undisprovable thesis.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2024
  • The second reason the government has to be careful about making unprovable allegations is that its bully pulpit is greater than any other.
    — Noah Feldman, The Denver Post, 17 Mar. 2017
  • The dissonance between this narrative and the obvious, but perhaps legally unprovable, truth should ring loudly in the public mind.
    — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 26 Jan. 2021
  • Hume’s greatest pupil, Adam Smith, joined him in being skeptical of many unprovable claims of dogma and superstition.
    — WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Our research finds that the issues raised in the attack are either false, unprovable, or in the case of marijuana legalization, accurate.
    — Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY, 19 July 2020
  • Others believed sometimes unprovable family lore about Native roots.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2024
  • In a world where rational, scientific explanations are more available than ever, belief in the unprovable and irrational--in fringe--is on the rise.
    — Colin Dickey, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 July 2020
  • Multiple fact-checking groups subsequently rated Spicer's claim anywhere from unprovable to outright false.
    — Ajc Homepage, ajc, 21 July 2017
  • The validity of that assertion is still unprovable, and the same is true with respect to assumptions about Biden's ultimate intentions.
    — Jonathan Tobin, Washington Examiner, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Up here, most questions are fundamentally unprovable, and uncertainty reigns.
    — Gregory Barber, Quanta Magazine, 20 June 2025
  • His first incompleteness theorem states that in every formal system of mathematics that is rich enough to express arithmetic, there will be propositions that are both true and unprovable.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 May 2026
  • Gödel’s First Incompleteness Theorem says that, in any proof language, there are always unprovable statements.
    — Dave Linkletter, Popular Mechanics, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Set aside for a moment the unprovable claim made by Olympic and government officials, which is that the Games can inspire disaster victims to continue their fights to rebuild their lives.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2019
  • The phenomenon of kids (allegedly) seeing ghosts thrives online, but no matter how improbable or unprovable, the volume of these stories alone is enough to make scientists take notice.
    — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Or has Johnson, with his history of blame deflection and self-validating reasons, simply found an unimpeachable - and unprovable - excuse?
    — Kent Babb, chicagotribune.com, 13 Dec. 2017
  • For all practical purposes, these intrinsically hard-to-prove statements are just as unknowable as the unprovable statements that Gödel identified.
    — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 11 May 2026
  • The few who inquire deeply know the case against CO2 is plausible but unprovable, and that difficult trade-offs amid uncertainty mock the simple-minded chants of various extremists.
    — Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., WSJ, 19 Dec. 2023
  • In 1957, the British archaeologist Charles Thomas developed an unprovable hunch.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 14 July 2017
  • In 1957, the British archaeologist Charles Thomas developed an unprovable hunch.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 15 July 2017

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