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unproved

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Recent Examples of unproved 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 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 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 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 See All Example Sentences for unproved

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Still, telehealth platforms marketing GLP-1s for addiction trouble some experts, who say this could cause fragmented care and potentially inappropriate prescriptions as researchers are still working to understand and vet the unproven treatments.

— Ed Silverman, STAT, 22 Oct. 2026
Before the defense initiative, the bank had moved away from taking startup stakes, which can be relatively risky bets on unproven technologies.

— Hugh Son, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of unproven

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In 2024 Max Read, director of civic innovation for the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, identified seven such alleged outlets.

— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
Officers were at the Walmart to respond to a call about an alleged shoplifting and encountered two people with a child fleeing from the store into a vehicle, the Mississippi Department of Public Safety said at the time of the June 14 incident.

— Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2026

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Those concerns stretch across the realities of AI’s growth today and more speculative possibilities raised by some technologists and whistle-blowers.

— Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026
Yet, as in many speculative markets, sophisticated participants often have access to better information, stronger analytical tools and more advanced risk-management techniques than retail participants, giving them an informational edge.

— Aneri Jambusaria, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of speculative

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But Sung, Bennett and Miller stayed his order, finding that the California deployment could go forward under an obscure and virtually untested subsection of the law.

— Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
Does anyone believe that a new chief of staff, with an untested relationship with Trump, would survive any longer than an Apprentice contestant?

— Chris Whipple, Vanity Fair, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of untested

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The proposed amendment, which will require the support of at least 94 of the 141 members of parliament to pass, would remove that provision.

— Sam Meredith, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2026
New agency gets broad powers The proposed Department of Artificial Intelligence would operate as a cabinet-level federal agency.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of proposed

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Amazon has a hypothetical $50 billion chip business and can offer a roadmap to immense profitability.

— Jim Cramer, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2026
And there is still a hypothetical risk, election experts say, that the President could do something new and outlandishly lawless on or close to Election Day.

— Barton Gellman, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2026

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