How to Use unverifiable in a Sentence

unverifiable

adjective
  • What the United States has gained is vague and unverifiable at best.
    Byron Tau, WSJ, 12 June 2018
  • Besides, most of the reports of hacktivism are unverifiable at best.
    Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 3 Mar. 2022
  • In the wake of attacks in Rakhine, there was a massive spread of fake news on Facebook, including unverifiable stories, videos, and pictures — some decades old.
    Alice Driver, Longreads, 3 May 2018
  • Tran thinks kids now and in the future need to know how to evaluate sources and discern opinion or unverifiable assertions from pure fact.
    Andrew Simmons, SFChronicle.com, 24 Sep. 2020
  • So: Grim stuff, almost all of it unverifiable by any of those who’d tasked themselves with adjudicating the beef.
    Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2024
  • Without Manfred opening the books, the amount is unverifiable.
    Maury Brown, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Clans whose source of wealth is currently unverifiable or derives primarily from the state, such as the sprawling House of Saud, are also absent.
    Bloomberg.com, 27 June 2018
  • Articles bounce around social media, one as plausible-looking as the other, unverifiable or bunk news mixed in with the real stuff, and no one knows what (or who) to believe.
    David Roberts, Vox, 9 Dec. 2018
  • After striking a $44 billion deal last April to buy Twitter, Musk has been attempting to pull out of it since July, citing the unverifiable number of spam accounts on the platform.
    Tristan Bove, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The day brought a slew of reports of electoral shenanigans, most of them unverifiable — ballot boxes spirited away, dead people voting.
    Will Englund, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2019
  • The children were gathered by this institute's director, a brittle matron of unverifiable age named Maria, into lines in the commu- nity room.
    Ew Staff, EW.com, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Many are unverifiable — who decides whether a building is haunted?
    Rachel Leingang, azcentral, 20 June 2018
  • What would happen if women did start throwing around the kind of unverifiable statements that characterize classic ‘cheap talk’?
    Alison Escalante, Forbes, 11 May 2021
  • References to drug use, though unverifiable, abound in the historical record.
    Amina Khan, chicagotribune.com, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Amazon removed more than 1 million products that made fake or unverifiable claims about the coronavirus from its online retailer last month.
    Tim Pearce, Washington Examiner, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Alterations made to an email after it has been sent cause the cryptographic signatures to become unverifiable.
    Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2022
  • But suggesting that members of Congress will be jailed for doing their job is a little much even for someone like Gingrich, who has made his name in recent years for making outlandish and unverifiable claims about opposition to Trump.
    Chris Cillizza, CNN, 24 Jan. 2022
  • And while organizers admit that claim may be unverifiable, the tournament is most certainly not for the uncommitted.
    Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Feb. 2023
  • That hope fizzled and what remains is a possible one-year extension with new, unverifiable limitations on Russia’s weapons.
    Abraham Mahshie, Washington Examiner, 6 Nov. 2020
  • If past documents are incomplete, unverifiable or incorrect, no one will likely pay top dollar for your business.
    Joseph Safina, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Several experts who reviewed the report said it was filled with misinformation and unverifiable claims pulled from social media.
    Michael Casey, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Oct. 2021
  • The election integrity activists say the new voting machines are unaccountable and unverifiable and have many of the same security vulnerabilities as the old ones.
    Kate Brumback, Star Tribune, 28 Sep. 2020
  • The Court has provided a sensible path forward which does not include the selective leak of unverifiable and misleading information.
    Devlin Barrett and Carol D. Leonnig, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The messages resemble older forms of misinformation — unverifiable rumors sent in letters, then email, and now forwarded via group text — that have caught on amidst the uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic.
    NBC News, 12 Mar. 2020
  • A lot of them originate with totally unverified, and unverifiable, posts on microblogging sites like Weibo.
    Sascha Segan, PCMAG, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The bill would give voters the opportunity to correct their ballots if there are errors, including a missing or unverifiable signature or identifier.
    Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 4 May 2023
  • By 2017, however, legitimate Bitcoin businesses had learned to be wary of these unverifiable stories.
    Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2022
  • In Tennessee, 70% of voters will use on unverifiable direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting machines.
    Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2020
  • These personal, unverifiable stories have already found wide appeal on social media.
    NBC News, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Baseline emissions estimates are unverifiable claims open to broad interpretation if not outright abuse.
    Jessica F. Green, Foreign Affairs, 20 Nov. 2023

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