How to Use inconclusive in a Sentence

inconclusive

adjective

• The results of the test were inconclusive.
• The first two rounds of the boxing match were inconclusive.
• The outlook for the rest of the year remains inconclusive.
  — Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2024
• Years of inconclusive fighting has pushed the Arab world’s poorest nation to the brink of famine.
  — Samy Magdy, ajc, 16 Apr. 2022
• Years of inconclusive fighting has pushed the Arab world's poorest nation to the brink of famine.
  — Jon Gambrell, ajc, 15 Nov. 2022
• Casey Schnack: The expert said that that was inconclusive.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 30 Sep. 2023
• After the game against the Jazz, Budenholzer had said the X-rays were inconclusive and Hood was held out of the second half.
  — Jim Owczarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Nov. 2021
• Those studies tend to be small and inconclusive, Dr. Lin said.
  — New York Times, 15 Oct. 2021
• The tool should help patients avoid having to come in for a second biopsy if the first is inconclusive, Sloan said.
  — Evan MacDonald, cleveland, 19 Mar. 2021
• The irony is that, at the time of DDT’s ban, the science linking its spray to human health was suggestive but inconclusive.
  — Scott W. Stern, The New Republic, 31 May 2022
• Part of the discussion today was about the science and, frankly, the science is inconclusive.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
• Yet the data is so inconclusive that the speed-limit debate rages on.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2021
• But tests were inconclusive as to what caused her ailments.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 6 July 2021
• But the effects of these compounds are so far inconclusive.
  — Madeleine Watts, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• The zoo conducted necropsies on the owlets, but the results were inconclusive.
  — Megan Becka, cleveland, 24 Aug. 2022
• More news to know now An inconclusive vote in Spain leaves the country in a political labyrinth.
  — USA TODAY, 24 July 2023
• But that replay was determined to be inconclusive, the out call was upheld, and the inning was over.
  — Mike Digiovannastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2022
• There is no cure, no means of prevention, and the effect of the few remedies now on the market are inconclusive and modest at best.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2021
• Scores and scores to too-small studies came to inconclusive results.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 30 Dec. 2021
• Phinn ordered the tests in March, but the results have so far been inconclusive, court documents show.
  — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 19 Sep. 2022
• But when evidence from the crime scene was finally sent to the DNA lab to be tested, the results were inconclusive.
  — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 29 June 2023
• But numerous studies over the past decades have proven to be rather inconclusive.
  — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 27 Sep. 2022
• But none of the small, inconclusive studies that have been done on apple cider vinegar have studied the pill form—only the liquid.
  — Women's Health, 4 Aug. 2023
• Plus, the autopsy was inconclusive because of the extent of Pitts' burns.
  — Felicia Fonseca, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2021
• With a small sample size, the results were inconclusive.
  — Ian Graber-Stiehl, Science | AAAS, 1 June 2021
• As of this writing, others are busy running tests, and the results are inconclusive.
  — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 11 Dec. 2023
• But much prior research has been small in scale, and at times, inconclusive, experts say.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 30 Aug. 2022
• The most recent war, in May, ended in an inconclusive cease-fire after 11 days of fighting.
  — Wafaa Shurafa, ajc, 21 Aug. 2021
• Research appears to be inconclusive about whether or not sweat affects chest strap sensor accuracy.
  — Julia Ries, Outside Online, 6 Sep. 2024
• However, research on the effectiveness of many sleep hacks—such as intermittent melatonin use—has been inconclusive.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Verywell Health, 10 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024