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UK
/ʌnvˈɛɹɪfˌaɪəbəl/
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[ US /ənˌvɛɹɪˈfaɪəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ənˌvɛɹɪˈfaɪəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- (of e.g. evidence) not objective or easily verified
How To Use unverifiable In A Sentence
- Some ethnographers, for example, use an interpretive approach, drawing on experiential knowledge gained from physical participation in the field, knowledge that others might discount as unverifiable.
- According to an unverifiable though not implausible tradition, in early times afflicted states were occasionally urged to dispatch a colony.
- While the phenomenon of global warming is an empty worry, fundamentally unverifiable and unfalsifiable in a strict scientific sense, it is one that has been empowered with a greater meaning by those who have the motive to do so.
- It is time to stop seeking national safety behind parchment barriers such as the unverifiable and unenforceable 1972 Biological Weapons Convention.
- Whereas proponents claim that the restriction on all nuclear testing will limit vertical and horizontal proliferation, critics argue the Treaty is unverifiable and will therefore be unable to constrain proliferation.
- Credit cards are issued to unverifiable business addresses, or posh students who claim to be Lord Twiddle of Twaddle earning hundreds of thousands of pounds a year.
- Nonetheless, there was agreement both that all legitimate knowledge is either scientific or logico-mathematical, and that where traditional metaphysics involves claims that are wholly unverifiable, these claims are meaningless.
- We know, too, how the questions were framed, amid unverifiable assurances from anonymous US intelligence officials that he was not harmed, and that the only coercion was of the psychological kind.
- Will they be told that homeless figures are customarily unverifiable and therefore consistently exaggerated?
- As a measure to minimise the risk of inadvertent launch, de-targeting (removing the target coordinates from the launch system computer) is commendable, although unverifiable.