Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a manner capable of proof.
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- adverb With
proof ; in a provable manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an obvious and provable manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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But face with growing evidence of increasingly serious and professional attacks on networks, it may be time to lay ideology aside and consider some serious defensive action on a scale the provably only government can mount.
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Khmerization, posting at KI Media, informs us that ilovethailand. org has resulted in the birth of ilovekhmer. org, a Khmer website created with the sole intention of countering the “provably false accusations” made by the Thai PM's website, ilovethailand. org.
Global Voices in English » Cambodia, Thailand: ilovethailand website sparks controversy 2009
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However, the particular statements here were nonactionable statements of opinion; they were not provably false as required for defamation, because they advocated one of several feasible interpretations of events.
Interaction between disparagement and antitrust Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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Even * if* Co2 emissions were provably the most dangerous environmental pollutant, how would any halfway sane human being come up with the idea of trading money for imaginary, immeasurable and or imaginary “credits” could possibly be a good idea?
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Copenhagen as Income Redistribution 2009
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"The virtual destruction of the Arellano Felix cartel has opened a vacuum, which is being exploited by the Sinaloa cartel and Chapo Guzman, who is arguably and probably provably the largest, most powerful organized crime head in Mexico," U.S.
Meet El Chapo, The 'Most Powerful Drug Trafficker In The World' AP 2011
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A claim of 11,500 employees when a company actually has 11,600 is provably false, but not false advertising.
Archive 2009-08-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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A claim of 11,500 employees when a company actually has 11,600 is provably false, but not false advertising.
IPSC: Trademark Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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How about one more apology for being willfully, deliberately and provably wrong?
Wilson says no more apologies for outburst against president 2009
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However, the particular statements here were nonactionable statements of opinion; they were not provably false as required for defamation, because they advocated one of several feasible interpretations of events.
Archive 2009-10-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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The basic problem with the Republicans is that their policies are unpopular and provably catastrophic.
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