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Recent Examples of unproved What Happens Next The lawsuit’s allegations are unproved, and no court has made findings on the merits. — Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025 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 And the exploitation of the total resource, including unproved but technically recoverable resources, is fairly low, less than 2% per year. — Michael Lynch, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024 During the 2020 wildfires in Oregon, for example, armed men hampered firefighting, fueled by unproved rumors that antifa had set the fires. — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for unproved

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Do not introduce an unproven customer-facing AI workflow during peak season.

— Michael Fox, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026
For the rest of the industry, that could put the onus on an array of nascent technologies, from unproven launch vehicles to a troubled astronaut spacecraft under development by Boeing that previously malfunctioned with two NASA astronauts aboard.

— Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of unproven

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Several Japanese nationals, including executives at top Japanese firms, were reportedly detained in August over alleged violations of dual-use goods export restrictions.

— Anniek Bao,Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 5 Oct. 2026
One answer to such questions comes from the recent resignation of BOR Vice Chair Juanita James, who was appointed to head the search for a new CSCU chancellor, and faced her own criticism for alleged inaction over the problems within the BOR.

— Dr. Matthew Warshauer, Hartford Courant, 4 Oct. 2026

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Under the concept True Dystopic, the #LINK Vertical program brings together auteur documentary and genre cinema, using real locations in Rio de Janeiro as settings for imagining speculative futures.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 6 Oct. 2026
The governor, who is up for reelection in November, said speculative proposals to build data centers had swamped Pennsylvania.

— Salena Zito, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of speculative

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The rest of the filmmaking, too, is content to coast at a lower difficulty setting, from the proficient but anonymously taupe lensing by master DP Robert Elswit to an untested ensemble of ever-watchable actors playing capably to type.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026
Smaller banks may not be able to participate in the process and even large ones may initially be wary of untested new rules.

— Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of untested

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The proposed amendment, which will require the support of at least 94 of the 141 members of parliament to pass, would remove that provision.

— Sam Meredith, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2026
New agency gets broad powers The proposed Department of Artificial Intelligence would operate as a cabinet-level federal agency.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of proposed

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Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha blasted former first lady Michelle Obama’s podcast, IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson, after a segment discussing hypothetical scenarios of men getting pregnant.

— Mackenzie Chase, The Washington Examiner, 4 Oct. 2026
In other words, Curtis’ hypothetical hinged on a somewhat ludicrous notion, which is to say if ESPN chose to revisit that botched experiment, McAfee would be the guy to take on the role as comic foil.

— Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 2 Oct. 2026

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