How to Use incontestable in a Sentence
incontestable
adjective- The evidence against him is incontestable.
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Yet the facts were incontestable, the verdict and sentence assured: guilty, and life imprisonment, the death penalty being a thing of the past in France.
—Robert Gottlieb, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2019
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And across red-carpet reporting, a tone of reluctance reigned even as black dress after black dress made an incontestable statement.
—Daniel D'addario, Time, 9 Jan. 2018
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The moralized vague, the unspecific, has the advantage of being incontestable.
—Michael Upchurch, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2018
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That Americans want cheaper medicines seems incontestable.
—Clyde Haberman, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2016
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The advancement in the 24 years that separated their wins — embodied with such resolute strength of character by Poitier — is incontestable.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Jan. 2022
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Pound’s visionary role in leading poetry in English into the modern, after the etiolations of the late 19th century, seems incontestable.
—Karl Kirchwey, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2018
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The charge that economists are more than occasionally guilty of excessive self-confidence is incontestable.
—Idrees Kahloon, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
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There are no incontestable arguments or fail-proof strategies that will always convert a conspiracy theorist to skepticism.
—Jovan Byford, CNN, 4 Aug. 2020
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China claims the island, a self-governing democracy that is critical to global technology supply chains, as an incontestable part of its territory.
—Ana Swanson, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2022
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True believers would argue that yes, maybe these UFO reports aren’t especially reliable, but there really is incontestable proof of galactic visitors.
—NBC News, 5 June 2017
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What all these arguments miss is the simple fact that, despite whatever rising costs exist for raw materials or transportation or other underlying factors, the incontestable truth is: profits are way up for the largest corporations in America.
—Faiz Shakir, The New Republic, 22 Nov. 2021
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The combination of these poor incentives results in money being siphoned from average Americans in a virtually incontestable fashion.
—Frederick Daso, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021
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But where Edgerton’s rigid rules form an incontestable hierarchy that ultimately undermines his entire family, Krasinski’s character clearly shares equally with his wife the burden of protecting and providing for his family.
—Aja Romano, Vox, 27 Apr. 2018
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Its readership is vast, its satisfactions apparently limitless, its profitability incontestable.
—Robert Gottlieb, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2017
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