disprovable

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Recent Examples of disprovable Experts say easily disprovable narratives about the climate keeps circulating. Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2022 Salazar’s claims were easily disprovable. Doug Bock Clark, ProPublica, 26 Apr. 2022 Its assertions were easily disprovable. Sheera Frenkel New York Times, Star Tribune, 24 July 2021 Its assertions were easily disprovable. New York Times, 24 July 2021 The Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners and the Board of Nursing instructed the Department of Health to pursue investigations of medical professionals who made disprovable claims to patients or on social media. From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2021 But if anything is possible, then nothing is disprovable. Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2021 The attorneys all filed lawsuits in Michigan that included easily disprovable allegations of fraud, furthering concerns fomented by former President Donald Trump that the election was stolen. Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 2 Feb. 2021 The group also promotes a host of loosely connected and often disprovable theories, often using the hashtag #SaveTheChildren to circulate falsehoods. Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disprovable
Adjective
  • Whether or not Jones would have wanted his character to feature in Fortnite is debatable, but strangely enough, Disney’s Star Wars has inspired similar debates in the past.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
  • Whether that was the best ploy is debatable, particularly as results on the field have waned.
    Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 14 May 2025
Adjective
  • But skeptics say that without the original document, the story is unprovable.
    Virginia Brown, Charlotte Observer, 14 May 2025
  • One fear is therefore that the Collatz problem is one of the unprovable statements of mathematics.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 25 July 2024

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“Disprovable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disprovable. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.

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