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Proud (TV series)

Proud is a 2026 Polish HBO Max drama series created by Karol Klementewicz, starring Ignacy Liss as gay model Filip Raczyński, who adopts his niece after his sister's death; it won the Series Mania Grand Prix.

Proud Boys

Proud Boys: far-right, male-only North American organization founded 2016 by Gavin McInnes; 'Western chauvinist' self-description, four membership degrees, Canadian terrorist designation 2021, and 2023 seditious-conspiracy convictions of leaders including Enrique Tarrio.

Proud Mary

Proud Mary: 1969 rock song written by John Fogerty for Creedence Clearwater Revival, from Bayou Country; peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 8 in the UK; Ike & Tina Turner's 1971 funk-soul cover reached No. 4 and won a 1972 Grammy.

Proud Mary (film)

Proud Mary is a 2018 American action thriller directed by Babak Najafi and starring Taraji P. Henson as a hitwoman for an organized crime family in Boston.

Proust (Mercurian crater)

Proust is a 157-km-diameter impact crater on Mercury at 19.70°N, 46.70°W, in quadrangle H-6. Named for French novelist Marcel Proust, the name was approved in 1976.

Proust Questionnaire

The Proust Questionnaire is a set of roughly two dozen personal questions named for Marcel Proust, whose answers to a Victorian confession album inspired versions in magazines and television.

PROV-O

PROV-O, the PROV Ontology, is a W3C Recommendation published in 2013 that expresses provenance, the documented history of how entities were produced, as an OWL ontology.

Provability logic

Provability logic is a modal logic, centered on the system GL, that studies what arithmetical theories like Peano Arithmetic can prove about their own provability.

Provanna

Provanna is a genus of provannid deep-sea snails (Dall, 1918) living at hydrothermal vents, cold seeps, and organic falls; sole extant Provannidae genus, with species such as P. cocytus, P. beebei, and P. annae.

Provannidae

Provannidae is a family of deep-sea gastropod snails in Abyssochrysoidea, endemic to hydrothermal vents, seeps, and organic falls; five genera including Provanna and Alviniconcha, but molecular phylogenies show the family is paraphyletic.

Prove

Prove Identity, Inc., formerly Payfone, is a New York-based digital identity verification company founded in 2008 by Rodger Desai, which authenticates consumers using phone-centric data for banks, fintechs, and healthcare companies.

PROVE-HF trial

PROVE-HF (NCT02887183) was a 52-week, open-label, single-arm phase 4 trial of sacubitril/valsartan in 794 HFrEF patients, showing NT-proBNP reduction correlated with reverse cardiac remodeling.

Proved reserves

Proved reserves are oil and gas quantities demonstrated with reasonable certainty to be commercially recoverable from known reservoirs, the most conservative tier of petroleum reserve classification.

Proven Innocent

Proven Innocent is a 2019 Fox legal drama created by David Elliot, starring Rachelle Lefevre as a wrongfully convicted Chicago attorney whose firm exonerates the innocent; canceled after 13 episodes.

Provenance

Provenance: the documented origins, custody, and ownership history of objects, records, and collections. Covers the archival principle (respect des fonds, Provenienzprinzip), art authentication, Nazi-era restitution research, and digital provenance standards like C2PA.

Provençal quilts

Provençal quilts: French raised-relief whole-cloth quilting, chiefly boutis, piqûre de Marseille, and matelassage, made by cording two fine fabric layers from the reverse; Marseille tradition since the 13th century, inscribed in France's intangible heritage in 2019.

Provence

Provence, historic province of southeastern France named after Rome's Provincia Romana (125-121 BC), capital Aix-en-Provence; Angevin county until 1481, then united with France; Provençal language and Félibrige heritage.

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (PACA, also called Région Sud) is a region of southeastern France along the Mediterranean coast and the Alps; its 5.2 million inhabitants make it France's leading provincial tourist region.

Provention Bio

Provention Bio was an American clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on preventing autoimmune disease, known for TZIELD (teplizumab), the first therapy approved to delay the onset of type 1 diabetes.

Provenza

"Provenza" is a 2022 solo single by Colombian singer Karol G, produced with Ovy On The Drums and named for the Medellín neighborhood where she grew up.

Proverb

Proverb: a short traditional saying expressing a general truth or rule of conduct in fixed, often figurative form; studied by paremiology; distinct from maxim, aphorism, adage, cliché, and idiom by traditionality and imagery.

Proverbios morales

Proverbios morales (Moral Proverbs) is a fourteenth-century Castilian wisdom poem by the Jewish poet Sem Tob (Santob) de Carrión, dedicated to King Peter I of Castile.

Proverbs 31

Proverbs 31 is the final chapter of the biblical book of Proverbs, containing the words of King Lemuel and a 22-verse acrostic poem praising the woman of valor.

ProVerum

ProVerum is an Irish medical device company in Dublin that developed the ProVee System, a nitinol stent for enlarged prostate, approved by the FDA in 2025.

ProVerum Medical

ProVerum Medical (ProVerum Ltd.) is a private Irish medical device company founded in 2016 as a Trinity College Dublin spin-out, known for the ProVee prostatic stent, FDA-approved in 2025.

PROVESA trial

PROVESA trial (NCT04786834): a multicenter, randomized, blinded clinical trial at ORSI Academy, Belgium, comparing proficiency-based progression training with Halsted's traditional training for robotic vesico-urethral anastomosis on a chicken model; 12/18 versus 3/18 trainees reached proficiency.

PROVIDE trial (NCT03332225)

PROVIDE (NCT03332225) was a phase II randomized Greek trial of biomarker-guided immunotherapy in septic shock, testing anakinra for MALS and interferon-gamma for immunoparalysis; 36 patients enrolled, no mortality benefit.

Providence (1977 film)

Providence (1977) is Alain Resnais's only English-language feature, written by David Mercer and starring John Gielgud, Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, David Warner, and Elaine Stritch; a dying novelist's drunken night of invention, it won seven Césars.

Providence (American TV series)

Providence (1999-2002) is an NBC family drama created by John Masius, starring Melina Kanakaredes as plastic surgeon Sydney Hansen, who returns to Rhode Island after her mother's death; 5 seasons, 99 episodes.

Providence Canyon State Park

Providence Canyon State Park, "Georgia's Little Grand Canyon," is a 1971-established Georgia state park in Stewart County protecting erosion gorges up to 150 feet deep, formed by 1800s poor farming practices in Cretaceous Providence Sand.