How to Use provable in a Sentence

provable

adjective
  • Plus, their provable 96.1% RTP should help you out in the long run.
    Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2024
  • No votes should be counted from the state of Nevada if that turns out to be the provable case.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2020
  • The challenge for Smith will be to confine it to a few easily provable counts.
    Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2023
  • But once Crain gets those records, probable become provable and that would be the sort of thing that might get people fired.
    Kyle Whitmire | Kwhitmire@al.com, al, 26 June 2023
  • There is no provable answer right now: none, zip, nothing.
    Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Whether or not this is ultimately true in a provable sense remains to be seen.
    Richard Pallardy, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The value of NFTs is assured by their provable scarcity, which drives demand.
    Lawrence Wintermeyer, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
  • The museum’s failures of due diligence were deplorable, Bogdanos told me, but fell short of a provable crime.
    Ariel Sabar, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
  • If the evidence presented is provable, then the charges will prevail.
    Star Tribune, 23 Nov. 2020
  • For my coverage of AI safety and the need for rigorous and provable safeguards, see the link here, for example.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
  • His defense is the most provable with paperwork and his attorney, Craig Robertson, is top shelf.
    John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2021
  • The concerns under the law about this anti-conservative bias are not provable.
    Ariana Garcia, Chron, 28 Sep. 2021
  • And therefore, the parallel postulate’s not provable from the other axioms.
    Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The Rooney Rule, in a sudden and seemingly provable way, might finally be revealed as an optics-massaging sham.
    Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Feb. 2022
  • But on these facts alone, many prosecutors would simply charge an easily provable assault, and forego the potential hate crime charge.
    Douglas S. Lavine, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Justice Department plea guidelines call for the government to seek a guilty plea to the most serious readily provable offense.
    The Editors, National Review, 21 June 2023
  • The use of the Holocaust in such a context also represents another rejection of basic, provable facts by a key member of the GOP in a grab for political power.
    Stephen Collinson, CNN, 25 May 2021
  • Department guidelines call for prosecutors to seek a guilty plea to the most serious, readily provable count.
    Christian Schneider, National Review, 22 June 2023
  • Most often, what is in question is not an empirically provable hypothesis such as whether witches exist or whether the sun orbits the Earth.
    Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 18 Feb. 2022
  • The Supreme Court’s verdict affirmed a political principle: that the state can make rules to modify people’s behavior if there is a provable benefit to the well-being of the public.
    Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 2 Dec. 2021
  • NFTs represent something unique that has provable ownership rights.
    Andrew Shirley, CNN, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Nonetheless, Navarro saw the question of Freud’s authorship in binary, provable terms.
    Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Montemerlo wrote that other communities have made the same claim, spread by their local newspapers, and those stories are likewise not provable.
    Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 24 Dec. 2020
  • In a previous filing in the sanctions case — before the filing in the Dominion lawsuit — Powell's team argued that one of the reasons sanctions are not warranted is that the allegations in their lawsuit are provable.
    Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 7 Apr. 2021
  • But establishing provable links between top officials and the horrors that have unfolded in places such as Mariupol and Bucha is difficult and time-consuming.
    Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 28 May 2022
  • The ability of dogs to communicate with us is empirically provable.
    Richard Pallardy, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Public policy must be open to rational discourse, with provable data, and not merely rely on beliefs, however sacred their sources.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 May 2022
  • Software verification techniques are widely used to offer provable assurances that the contracts work as intended.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Evidence shows voter fraud has historically been exceedingly rare, and other battleground states have similarly found very few instances of provable fraud in the 2020 election.
    Alison Durkee, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
  • There are issues open to debate within the scientific and medical communities, but that does not mean there are not objectively provable facts on which the scientific community has a consensus.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2022

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