prove
verb (used with object)
to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument.
provable
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a word derived from
prove.
Example Sentences
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I’d charge 2% of the reduction in their customer acquisition cost per week — measurable, provable results.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
To be sure, what theologians were investigating was, by definition, mysterious—unprovable in the way that scientific propositions are provable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
“These are cases where the provable facts supported charges.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026
If it were provable, it would be false, contradicting logic.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 10, 2025
In 1963 a mathematician, Paul Cohen, proved that this puzzle, the so-called continuum hypothesis, was neither provable nor disprovable, thanks to Gödel’s incompleteness theorem.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
