proven

Example Sentences

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“It has proven to be inaccurate,” she said.

From Salon

This past year has proven to be exceptionally challenging.

From BBC

"Even when safeguards are in place, it has been proven relatively easy to bypass these if someone is insistent enough on doing so," she said.

From BBC

The US Treasury has eased a seven-year-old oil embargo on Venezuela, as part of Washington's bid to boost oil production in the country with the world's largest proven reserves of crude.

From Barron's

Real science knows that if a hypothesis can’t be consistently proven, it’s false.

From Literature