provably
Americanadverb
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Nobody will get a provably correct answer for how much a company’s fixed assets diminish in value each year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
"I find the very suggestion that when I'm criticising Russia, that somehow I'll be in any way reacting to something Russia would have wanted me to do... it's provably nonsensical," Arnott told the BBC.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2025
“Everything they said about me is untrue, provably so,” Miller told The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2024
Corporations that damage our health with provably dangerous pollution?
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2024
A place that is neither provably sterile nor known to be infective.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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