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Princeton's WordNet

  1. proved, provenadjective

    established beyond doubt

    "a proven liar"; "a Soviet leader of proven shrewdness"

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  1. proved

    Proved refers to having established a fact or a statement through evidence, argument, or reasoning. It suggests that something has been demonstrated beyond doubt, supported with undeniable facts, logical analysis, or experimental results, in order to assert its validity, authenticity or truthfulness.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Proved

    of Prove

Editors Contribution

  1. provedverb

    Verb form of the word prove.

    They proved that the earth is round.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 31, 2020  

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'proved' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1464

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'proved' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3716

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of proved in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of proved in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of proved in a Sentence

  1. Mari Tufts:

    I did it so people will start to see that girls are not a distraction and to stop teaching young men that it is an acceptable excuse to be distracted from their education, i found there was no correlation between any of the photos that were in dress code or out of dress code. So I proved clothes that were dress code violations were no more distracting.

  2. John McCain:

    President Trump proved not only unable, but unwilling to stand up to Putin. He and Putin seemed to be speaking from the same script as the president made a conscious choice to defend a tyrant against the fair questions of a free press, and to grant Putin an uncontested platform to spew propaganda and lies to the world.

  3. John Jenkins:

    I think the likelihood of boots on the ground is very low, the Houthis are on home terrain, supported by Ali Abdullah Saleh, and have proved themselves effective fighters. They also have heavy weaponry and political support from Iran.

  4. Katie Hobbs:

    The other side isn't offering policies to make our lives better. They're offering conspiracies that only make our lives worse. We did our job. They refuse to do theirs. … That's why I'm running for governor, in 2020, against all odds, in the middle of a pandemic, we proved that democracy works. It's been my job and life's work to make government work for the people of Arizona.

  5. Michael Browne:

    February was wrong, as it's clearly been proved the markets were way too optimistic ... August is wrong, it's way too pessimistic, we have taken advantage of the opportunities that the markets have presented to us in a negative August ... in the expectation that we are going to come back in September.

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