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Recent Examples of unproven
Cassidy, chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, extended Kennedy multiple lifelines to retract unproven claims that some vaccines could cause autism during last week’s three-hour confirmation hearing before the panel.
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Ramsey Touchberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 Feb. 2025
It was shared on Telegram by attorney Lin Wood, who retired from the legal profession in July 2023 while facing disbarment over his role in supporting unproven claims of voter fraud.
—Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
As measles raged, Kennedy stayed connected to the island, writing to the prime minister to raise concerns about the vaccine and providing medical guidance to a local anti-vaccine activist who posted false claims about the vaccination campaign and promoted unproven alternative cures.
—Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2025
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The Fight Against Cancer
Two companies teamed up to treat cancer patients using an unproven blood filter in Antigua, out of reach of U.S. regulators.
—John Carreyrou, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
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Ramsey Touchberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 Feb. 2025
It was shared on Telegram by attorney Lin Wood, who retired from the legal profession in July 2023 while facing disbarment over his role in supporting unproven claims of voter fraud.
—Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
As measles raged, Kennedy stayed connected to the island, writing to the prime minister to raise concerns about the vaccine and providing medical guidance to a local anti-vaccine activist who posted false claims about the vaccination campaign and promoted unproven alternative cures.
—Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2025
Today’s Paper | Subscribe See more on: Food and Drug Administration
The Fight Against Cancer
Two companies teamed up to treat cancer patients using an unproven blood filter in Antigua, out of reach of U.S. regulators.
—John Carreyrou, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unproven
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The federal government is, in effect, suddenly being run like an A.I. startup; Musk, an unelected billionaire, a maestro of flying cars and trips to Mars, has made the United States of America his grandest test case yet for an unproved and unregulated new technology.—
Kyle Chayka,
The New Yorker,
12 Feb. 2025
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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
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Projects with large user bases, established reputations and third-party audits are generally less risky than new or untested platforms.—
Cathy Ross,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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And Treasury Department officials are likely worried that untested code might cause the payments system to crash.—
James Goldgeier,
Foreign Affairs,
7 Feb. 2025
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Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of the alleged copper thieves is asked to contact investigators at 215-686-3093.—
Mitchell Willetts,
Miami Herald,
4 Mar. 2025
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Just the same, there is an argument with the free-market champion’s insinuation that TikTok and other social media should be blamed for socialism’s alleged popularity.—
John Tamny,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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Proxima Kosmos launched Saturday featuring a sweeping interactive digital platform, films and a limited-run zine that expands the speculative universe through essays, art and storytelling.—
Leslie Katz,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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Eswar Prasad, a professor of trade policy at Cornell University who wrote the book The Future of Money about digital currencies, said the U.S. has a precedent for holding a stockpile of a speculative asset: gold.—
Juliana Kim,
NPR,
4 Mar. 2025
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Proponents of the move say the reserve would act as a hedge against financial instability in a hypothetical future in which cryptocurrencies replace regular money issued by central banks.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN,
8 Mar. 2025
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Proponents argued that an investment in Bitcoin would help the government chip away at the $36 trillion national debt, and ensure that the United States remained dominant in a hypothetical future where the global economy runs on cryptocurrencies.—
David Yaffe-Bellany,
New York Times,
7 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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“Unproven.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unproven. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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