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Recent Examples of unproven
However, these practices remain unproven to work.3 Some companies have marketed and sold DIY CRISPR kits, often costing hundreds of dollars, raising ethical and safety concerns about unregulated genetic modifications.
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Maggie O'Neill, Verywell Health, 21 Mar. 2025
This simple but meaningful step helps protect people and mitigates the potential harms of untested and unproven AI while still encouraging innovation.
—State Sen. James Maroney, Hartford Courant, 9 Mar. 2025
However, until a Rosetta Stone equivalent is found, these remain unproven theories.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN, 28 Feb. 2025
Big bets on unproven AI projects can lead to costly failures, which may hinder future AI projects and damage the company’s reputation.
—Nacho De Marco, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
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Maggie O'Neill, Verywell Health, 21 Mar. 2025
This simple but meaningful step helps protect people and mitigates the potential harms of untested and unproven AI while still encouraging innovation.
—State Sen. James Maroney, Hartford Courant, 9 Mar. 2025
However, until a Rosetta Stone equivalent is found, these remain unproven theories.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN, 28 Feb. 2025
Big bets on unproven AI projects can lead to costly failures, which may hinder future AI projects and damage the company’s reputation.
—Nacho De Marco, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unproven
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Berry recorded an impairment charge of $44 million related to unproved properties affected by California Senate Bill No. 1137, which restricts new drilling activities within 3,200 feet of sensitive receptors.—
Quartz Intelligence Newsroom,
Quartz,
13 Mar. 2025
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Rhetoric surrounding an audit of aid for Kyiv has amplified unproved accusations that Ukrainian officials have siphoned off cash intended for the war effort, and could undermine other requests for assistance.—
Russel Honoré,
Newsweek,
5 Mar. 2025
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Meanwhile in Louisiana, Hoffman's attorneys challenged the way the execution was to be carried out, saying the largely untested nitrogen gas method would violate his constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA TODAY,
12 Mar. 2025
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The producer hired Robert Benton to write and direct the film and took a chance in casting a relatively untested Meryl Streep, and the drama — about a family torn apart by divorce — went on to win best picture and four other Academy Awards.—
Mike Barnes,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Mar. 2025
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Unlike Littlejohn, Williams has the full force of the Innocence Project, as well his alleged victim’s family, a slew of supporters, and Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, who took out a full-page ad in a local paper calling for a stop to the execution.—
Brenna Ehrlich,
Rolling Stone,
29 Mar. 2025
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Without a more concerted attempt to define and demonstrate ethical behavior, the romanticization of fintech’s alleged moral superiority is going to backfire.—
Ron Shevlin,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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Black Mirror evokes anthology series like The Twilight Zone and Amazing Stories with speculative, offbeat tales that draw upon sci-fi, thriller, and horror tropes to satirize culture and interrogate moral and ethical quandaries.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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Clarity prevents reactive shifts, such as chasing speculative trends or overcorrecting after market downturns.—
Francois Botha,
Forbes.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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And Billups, to cite that hypothetical, might do a great job.—
Sean Keeler,
The Denver Post,
19 Mar. 2025
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For The Other To Blink Given the view in Europe that Trump is abandoning NATO in favor of the Kremlin, in a hypothetical future conflict with Russia, Europe might worry that the U.S. could cut off spare parts and updates for the F-35, Aboulafia says.—
Scott Neuman,
NPR,
19 Mar. 2025
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But the possible consequences of an Iranian nuclear capability are largely conjectural (save for one: nobody would think of invading Iran anymore).—
Barry R. Posen,
Foreign Affairs,
7 Sep. 2010
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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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