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
Wrestling McDonogh 72, John Carroll 0: The Eagles downed the Patriots in 13 consecutive matches Tuesday night for an incontestable win.
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Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 31 Jan. 2024
The slime is uncontested and incontestable.
—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
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Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 31 Jan. 2024
The slime is uncontested and incontestable.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incontestable
Adjective
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Campbell’s talent and tape are indisputable, but so is his less-than-ideal arm length.—
Eddie Brown,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Mar. 2025
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The virtues of index investing for the ordinary investor are indisputable.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2025
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However, despite challenges in implementation, the evidence is incontrovertible that AI investment is vital for future-proofing supply chains; these tools are the best bulwark currently available against geopolitical instability, climate change and industrial transformation.—
Azra Nurkic,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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For decades, the technical difficulty of editing photographs and videos allowed them to be treated, by most people, as essentially incontrovertible.—
Fergus McIntosh,
The New Yorker,
11 Jan. 2025
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No matter where people stand on Schulz’s point of view on comedy, his mark on pop culture with his punch lines has become unquestionable.—
Nate Jackson,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Mar. 2025
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But the evening’s unquestionable highlight featured Primer and Holland joining Guy, daughter Carlise and Guy’s band on stage, drawing the evening to a close shortly after midnight as Guy headed for the merch table.—
Jim Ryan,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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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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Faced with this irrefutable fact, there are two options: to understand aging as just another stage of life with its consequent physical and mental changes, or to deny it.—
Laura Solla,
Vogue,
1 Jan. 2025
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If irrefutable evidence of Russian malfeasance is found, NATO will have moved another step closer to confronting its adversary.—
Sarah Dean,
CNN,
27 Jan. 2025
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Xavier Restrepo’s measurables won’t leap out at anyone, but his production at Miami is undeniable.—
Alec Lewis,
New York Times,
26 Mar. 2025
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The Flip Flop While the flip-flop sandal may summon varying reactions, their comfort and undeniable versatility have pushed them past trend and into the essentials list.—
Cortne Bonilla,
Vogue,
25 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Yet as Gee points out, to date, there are still only suppositions, rather than conclusive evidence about why hominins made the transition to a bipedal lifestyle.—
Bruce Dorminey,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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The agency is quickly becoming a target of Elon Musk, who has claimed without conclusive evidence that there's rampant fraud from improper payments to dead people.—
Emily Peck,
Axios,
13 Mar. 2025
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But the unarguable fact is that the federal government would be providing less money to pay for health care for the roughly 72 million Americans on Medicaid.—
Nicholas Kristof,
The Mercury News,
11 Mar. 2025
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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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“Incontestable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incontestable. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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