undocumentable
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]un- + documentable
Adjective
[edit]undocumentable (not comparable)
- Not supportable with documentary evidence.
- These hearsay claims are intrinsically undocumentable.
- 1953, W. Cochran, F. Mosteller, and J. Tukey, "Statistical Problems of the Kinsey Report," Journal of the American Statistical Association, vol 48 no 264 (Dec), p. 674.
- KPM should have indicated which of their statements where undocumented or undocumentable and should have been more cautious.
- 1972 Nov, W. E. Fredeman, “Impediments and Motives: Biography as an Unfair Sport”, in Modern Philology, volume 70, number 2, page 151:
- . . . that undocumentable life of which, Sonstroem repeatedly acknowledges, he may not himself even have been aware.
- 1997 January 31, Stephen Jay Gould, “Editorial: Bright Star Among Billions”, in Science, volume 275, number 5300, page 599:
- Real science is so damned exciting, transforming, and provable, why would anyone prefer the undocumentable nonsense of astrology, alien abductions, and so forth?
- 2002, Scott Moss, "Policy analysis from first principles." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 99, no 10, sup 3 (May), p. 7265.
- Apart from one undocumentable claim, the strongest responses were that, when applied to past data, some new modeling techniques look better than most previous modeling techniques.
Antonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]not supportable with documentary evidence
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