proven
Britishverb
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a past participle of prove
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See not proven
adjective
Other Word Forms
- provenly adverb
Example Sentences
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The threshold slips from a proven clinical need or illness to the patient’s merely describing some mental-health symptoms.
"It's proven to be, over the years, not easy to make a meaningful deal with Iran," he said.
From BBC
"I hope The Hundred does not mirror patterns we are seeing in some other franchise ecosystems. I hope I am proven wrong."
From BBC
Venezuela sits on the world largest proven oil reserves and the once-thriving sector helped make it one of Latin America's wealthiest countries in the 20th century.
From Barron's
“I will not condone the re-litigation of proven cures, and neither will millions of Americans who credit their survival and quality of life to scientific miracles.”
From Salon
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