VERIFIABLE Synonyms: 33 Similar and Opposite Words

verifiable

adjective

ˌver-ə-ˈfī-ə-bəl

Definition of verifiable

as in demonstrable

capable of being proven as true or real we're not sure whether that's a verifiable hypothesis you need a verifiable letter from your doctor to file a claim for short-term disability

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Recent Examples of verifiable The ShinyHunters group claimed responsibility but offered no verifiable evidence, demanding that the bureau retract a warning describing it as a cybercriminal organization. — Eric Tucker, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026 There needs to be verifiable proof that the evaluator has been given access to the all the necessary information to make a thorough evaluation. — Bhaskar Chakravorti, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2026 Besides, a lack of verifiable evidence is what makes conspiracy theories so fun, right? — The Athletic Staff, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026 What a new deal needs to do is to place verifiable limits on defenses that give the other parties a sense of predictability. — Jeffrey Lewis, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for verifiable

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Adjective

Professors have encountered demonstrable issues with widespread cheating, with many forced to devise their own methods for eliminating unethical AI use.

— Christopher Rim, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
America has witnessed a proliferation of voting rights groups with sound justification and demonstrable results, but there comes a point when there may be too much of a good thing.

— Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 28 June 2026

Definition of demonstrable

Adjective

Binding it all together is the chain-of-custody record that includes every handoff between teams, vendors and systems, with verification signatures that make each component's provenance independently confirmable.

— Akash Pugalia, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Cekada is only the third person to be confirmed to lead the agency since the director's position was made confirmable in 2006.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 May 2026

Definition of confirmable

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Both Fontaines were scouts well ahead of the deep empirical and objective analysis of baseball data — sabermetrics is the catchall term — that some believe has made scouts obsolete.

— Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026
Others, like Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares, think the empirical methods this would require are extremely unlikely to work, and place the chance that superintelligence kills us all very high.

— Geoffrey Irving, Time, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of empirical

Adjective

The output has to be supportable, reviewable and grounded in information that can actually survive scrutiny later.

— Arun Ramakrishnan, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Claims about artificial intelligence must be technically accurate, operationally supportable, and consistent with the company’s financial results.

— Perrie M. Weiner, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026

Definition of supportable

Adjective

Lora Anguay Lora Anguay is working toward a cleaner, more sustainable energy future for Sacramento.

— The Sacramento Bee staff, Sacbee.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Faster output or wider AI use may look like productivity gains on paper, but leaders also need to consider whether the technology is actually making work more efficient and sustainable for employees.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of sustainable

Adjective

Leaders should map each derivative, set provable expiry controls and test one end-to-end erasure request before migration.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026
That level of detail also allowed the researchers to calculate a provable lower bound for the probability of completing the computation successfully.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of provable

Adjective

What separates the two is whether the bet rests on real, checkable information the market chose to stop questioning, or on a good story that hasn’t been tested.

— Piotr Tomasik, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Axiom Math has used its autonomous, multi-agent system that turns mathematical statements into machine-checkable proofs to crack several unsolved mathematical problems and verify many more proofs this year.

— Benjamin Skuse, IEEE Spectrum, 17 Aug. 2026

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