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Recent Examples of unproven
The clearest red flags are unproven or invasive treatments — like stem cell therapy — and sweeping health claims tied to supplements, IV vitamin drips or biometric screenings that the science doesn’t yet support.
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Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 23 May 2026
Nadella knew that staking his company’s AI strategy on an unproven startup was risky.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 21 May 2026
Vanguard exists to hunt down wild, unproven chip architectures and test them against real-world national security workloads.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 20 May 2026
Some settlements involve unproven allegations, and full disclosure can create misleading impressions of liability.
—Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 20 May 2026
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Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 23 May 2026
Nadella knew that staking his company’s AI strategy on an unproven startup was risky.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 21 May 2026
Vanguard exists to hunt down wild, unproven chip architectures and test them against real-world national security workloads.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 20 May 2026
Some settlements involve unproven allegations, and full disclosure can create misleading impressions of liability.
—Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 20 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unproven
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When gambling becomes the norm, taking risks in unproved investment channels start to look reasonable.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
20 May 2026
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What’s thus far unproved — and the topic of fierce debate — is whether algorithms like ACE2 can keep up over the long term.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
20 Feb. 2026
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Even this 15-4-1 run with John Tortorella as coach includes a bunch of wins over non-playoff teams and two series victories over young, untested opponents.—
Corey Masisak,
Denver Post,
20 May 2026
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Unexpectedly high degrees of charring on Orion's heat shield during that mission led engineers to alter the spacecraft's course to prevent a recurrence on Artemis 2, but, as is anything untested in space, there is always risk involved.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
18 May 2026
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The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation is also investigating the alleged assault.—
Jericka Duncan,
CBS News,
2 June 2026
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The alleged stabbing was due to a confrontation between the two teenagers, according to police.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
2 June 2026
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Of course, the speculative, the surreal, the fantastic has always lent itself to intense, often other-wordly experiences of grief and upheaval.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 May 2026
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Such scandals have put the spotlight on a murky (and growing) world of speculative, 24/7 transactions now filling the internet.—
Wyatte Grantham-Philips,
Fortune,
29 May 2026
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The presumed reasoning behind why the film was ignored is multilayered.—
Marcus Jones,
IndieWire,
8 Aug. 2025
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In a hypothetical invasion, the two countries could pincer the border and sever the only land route into the Baltic states from the rest of NATO.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
31 May 2026
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And according to Sengupta and his colleagues, missions like Solar Cruiser or Betts' hypothetical space-weather station are technologically feasible today.—
Kiona N. Smith,
Space.com,
31 May 2026
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Monterey Park’s City Council had already banned data centers by ordinance, after a proposed 247,000-square-foot data center met an outpouring of public anger and concern.—
Blanca Begert,
Los Angeles Times,
3 June 2026
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The proposed test, which the ED plans to implement by July 1st, 2026, is designed to measure the financial return on investment of postgraduate degree programs.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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Projections of economic gains from major sporting events are typically optimistic, euphoric, chimerical or conjectural.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2025
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That statistic is somewhat conjectural, since the vast majority of rapes in India are apparently not reported.—
Mark Jenkins,
Washington Post,
7 Nov. 2023
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“Unproven.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unproven. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.
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