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
• Democrats now have a strong if unprovable case that Mr. Comey changed the election outcome.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 29 May 2018
• This is the rosiest version of what could have been: plausible, but unprovable.
  — New York Times, 1 June 2018
• But that could also have been said for the politicized filing of unprovable homicide charges.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 24 Sep. 2020
• Think through every case to see why this is an example of a true, but unprovable statement.
  — Dave Linkletter, Popular Mechanics, 28 Jan. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Hume’s greatest pupil, Adam Smith, joined him in being skeptical of many unprovable claims of dogma and superstition.
  — WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
• 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 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
• This seems like a nice — but entirely unprovable — theory.
  — Steven Zeitchik, chicagotribune.com, 2 May 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
• If one unprovable accusation doesn’t suffice, why not produce a second, or third?
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• By the early 1900s, so many barnacles had clung to the keel of mathematics—so many paradoxes, and theories that were true but unprovable, and strange new geometries—that the vessel itself seemed in danger of sinking.
  — Samanth Subramanian, The New Republic, 8 Mar. 2022
• And every neighborhood kid had some ambiguous, completely unprovable Mafia tale to tell.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019
• 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
• Gödel’s First Incompleteness Theorem says that, in any proof language, there are always unprovable statements.
  — Dave Linkletter, Popular Mechanics, 28 Jan. 2022
• 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
• Multiple fact-checking groups subsequently rated Spicer's claim anywhere from unprovable to outright false.
  — Ajc Homepage, ajc, 21 July 2017
• And on Amazon, sanitizers and tablets containing chlorine dioxide are being sold with unprovable claims of sanitizing and disinfecting hospitals, offices, and homes, the EPA said.
  — Jennifer A. Dlouhy, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2020
• Kurt Gödel, the renowned Austrian logician, made matters worse in 1931 with his first incompleteness theorem, which said that any sufficiently powerful math system must contain statements that are true but unprovable.
  — Peter Coy, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2012
• But such beauty harbors unanswerable questions—ones that are, as mathematician Robert Berger stated in 1966, provably unprovable.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2023
• In 2013 Conway returned to the problem with probabilistic arguments suggesting that the Collatz conjecture itself is unprovable with the axiom systems that are usually used in mathematics.
  — Jean-Paul Delahaye, Scientific American, 28 Apr. 2021
• The problem with this entire discussion—including the experts’ breezy dismissals—is that the presence or absence of sentience is by definition unprovable, unfalsifiable, unknowable.
  — Rob Toews, Forbes, 24 July 2022

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