as in indisputable
not capable of being challenged or proved wrong
the incontestable statement that every contest has a winner and a loser
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Recent Examples of incontestable
The slime is uncontested and incontestable.
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Judith Martin, oregonlive, 18 Jan. 2023
What’s incontestable is that you’ve been greatly pained by what happened.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2023
The incontestable quality, originality, and global reach of her music is another.
—Shaun Harper, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
The barrage has forced Taylor to defend a rock-solid conservative record — and assertions as factual and incontestable as the observation that crimes were committed on Jan. 6.
—Dallas News, 27 Jan. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incontestable
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And because hybrid warfare is by its nature designed to evade clear attribution of responsibility, officials have hesitated to launch powerful responses without having indisputable evidence of an adversary’s identity.Lara Jakes, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2025
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For people in fashion especially, the mall seems to kick up a particular nostalgia pang—especially around the holidays when so many formative memories were created, and clothing was the indisputable backdrop.Alyssa Hardy, Vogue, 11 Dec. 2024
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For Nikki, who died Monday at 81, our future depends upon our willingness to learn from everyday Black folks’ refusal to accept status-quo cruelties as incontrovertible realities.L. Lamar Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2024
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The evidence against the perpetrators was abundant and incontrovertible.Belinda Luscombe, TIME, 19 Dec. 2024
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Modern football has brought many unquestionable improvements.Simon Hughes, The Athletic, 20 Dec. 2024
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Others include the unquestionable perpetrators of notorious acts of mass terror, such as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (the Boston Marathon bombing), Dylann Roof (the Emanuel AME Church mass shooting in Charleston), and Robert Bowers (the Tree of Life Synagogue mass shooting in Pittsburgh).The Editors, National Review, 16 Dec. 2024
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The DeSantis announcement is an indubitable win for Musk.Scott Nover, Quartz, 24 May 2023
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There is all of a sudden one Way of Knowing which presents us with indubitable truths.Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2010
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Eminem and 50 Cent are both irrefutable Hall Of Fame talents in rap with nothing left to accomplish.Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 26 Dec. 2024
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Livingston’s children claimed that their father read them the poem as early as 1807, many years before it was ever published, but failed to ever provide irrefutable evidence.Erik Kain, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
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Just as climate change is undeniable, so is the proliferation of jobs to address it.Aliza Knox, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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The energy that humans bring to their craft is undeniable, often transcending their message and helping unlock new ideas in unrelated disciplines.Bill Connolly, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2024
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The Cornell research found cycle thresholds, or Ct levels, higher than 35 in the sample, which indicates low viral levels; typically, experts look for levels under 20 as conclusive evidence that the virus is circulating.Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2025
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No conclusive proof that Musk is Dittmann appears to have emerged.David Faris, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
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The Lakers have fired coach Darvin Ham after two seasons, both of which had some unarguable successes and both of which ended with the Lakers losing to Denver in the playoffs.Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2024
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Here, however, is a simple, clear, and unarguable case for taking immediate action.Mustafa Suleyman, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2023
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“Incontestable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incontestable. Accessed 14 Jan. 2025.
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