How to Use provably in a Sentence

provably

adverb

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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: 26 Oct 2024