How to Use provably in a Sentence

provably

adverb

• The jump from a provably false premise to physical attacks doesn't require skill.
  — Timothy Egan New York Times, Star Tribune, 28 June 2021
• 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
• The unchecked behavior and provably false content on platforms like YouTube have to be addressed and removed.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 25 Jan. 2022
• That is provably false: Studies report no risk to the blood supply in other countries that do not ban donations from this group of men.
  — Jason Silverstein, STAT, 19 Jan. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Arsenal, the one side who appeared to have been provably maimed by the competition having lost key striker Gabriel Jesus, was also undisturbed in the win vs West Ham.
  — Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
• Other parts of his story, prosecutors said, were provably false.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2022
• In fact, on his show Oz has promoted questionable (at best, if not outright dangerous and provably false) things like homeopathy, faith healers, and even talking-to-the-dead guru John Edward.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2011
• 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
• 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
• In 2008 a creative federal prosecutor used this provably false statement to charge Burge with criminal perjury and obstructions of justice.
  — Peter C. Baker, The New York Review of Books, 2 July 2020
• When the player manages to do so, this results in a provably correct matrix multiplication algorithm for any pair of matrices, and its efficiency is captured by the number of steps taken to zero out the tensor.
  — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 13 Oct. 2022
• But new technology is aiming to change that — technology that allows fans to own the true original master recording of their favorite song (of which, only one provably exists) that is authenticated by the artist themselves.
  — Tyler 'jett' Prescott, Rolling Stone, 4 June 2021
• Non-fungible tokens allow people to buy provably original versions of everything from digital art to pop albums.
  — Caitlin Ostroff, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2021
• In their first paper, Ahmadi and Zhang matched the challenge of quadratic optimization — in which pairs of variables interact — with something called the maximum stable set problem, a famously (and provably) difficult problem to solve.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Nov. 2021
• The technology produced responses that seemed authoritative but were often provably untrue.
  — Stuart A. Thompson, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2023
• However, Trump’s strategy also comes with some provably revisionist history.
  — cleveland, 27 June 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024