How to Use incontrovertible in a Sentence

incontrovertible

adjective
  • Both the sound and the sense of that sentence were, to me, incontrovertible.
    Deborah Treisma, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
  • By the end of that last disc, those facts are incontrovertible.
    Randall Robertsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Here was incontrovertible proof of the human spirit, and yet how many of us know of it, or of her?
    Paula McLain, Town & Country, 12 July 2018
  • What keeps me watching is the incontrovertible fact that these movies are pure soap opera.
    Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
  • All point to one incontrovertible fact: that the regime and its allies are the main authors of violence in the conflict.
    Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2018
  • But as Wragg Sykes says, the incontrovertible fact is that hybrid children were born and raised to survive.
    Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2021
  • The point that Omar and Gunnels made was incontrovertible.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 1 June 2022
  • Today’s country bands don’t play for keeps, but John Prine comes from a place where those things are incontrovertible.
    Holly Gleason, cleveland, 9 Apr. 2020
  • That is an incontrovertible fact, Mark Barabak writes in his column.
    David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
  • The world had incontrovertible proof of light’s waviness.
    Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
  • His presence was proof of an incontrovertible fact about the festival, now in its second week: Cannes loves dogs.
    Esther Zuckerman, New York Times, 21 May 2024
  • The results are incontrovertible: The 109-year-old health center is, well, still a great hospital.
    Fortune, 30 June 2020
  • Quinn is able to obtain incontrovertible evidence and gives the scoop to Marissa rather than keep it for himself.
    Sopan Deb, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2017
  • Evidence for the substance’s existence is close to incontrovertible, but no one yet knows what it is made of.
    Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 9 June 2020
  • Could this telescope find the first incontrovertible evidence of alien life?
    Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
  • American Idol had a heyday, like few shows ever do, and that’s an incontrovertible fact.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 10 June 2022
  • This incontrovertible fact lends a sense of urgency and poignancy to firsthand accounts of how survivors managed to endure and to move on.
    Alissa Simon, Variety, 2 May 2022
  • The evidence—surveillance-camera footage, bodies of people with their hands tied and gunshot wounds in the back of their heads—seems incontrovertible.
    Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Once this quagmire—in which truth and lies are knotted up and nothing is incontrovertible—is established, the final aim comes into view.
    Mike Mariani, The Hive, 9 Apr. 2017
  • Imagine if a bank were to leave incontrovertible instructions to its tellers on a chalkboard.
    Brian Barrett, WIRED, 11 July 2019
  • The incontrovertible sequence is regrettably still somewhat up in the air.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 June 2021
  • In every other way the owners have already set up Dear Jane’s as the incontrovertible heir apparent.
    Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Experts say this is incontrovertible proof of the vaccines' power.
    NBC News, 4 Aug. 2021
  • One incontrovertible truism in the car business is that vehicles get bigger with time.
    Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 1 Apr. 2020
  • What’s left in the first canister is the incontrovertible evidence: brownish, yellowish, sticky, and very stinky gunk.
    Anya Tchoupakov, Bon Appetit, 13 Feb. 2018
  • But the incontrovertible evidence around the world of the disease's horror, has instead resulted in mixed messages from the government.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 23 May 2020
  • Even when LuPone is just shimmying along with the ensemble, her magnetism is as incontrovertible as a natural law.
    Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2022
  • But if that’s not enough, the economic argument is incontrovertible: Adding women makes work groups more creative.
    Kristen Bellstrom, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2018
  • To date, there’s no incontrovertible evidence for water flowing atop the Martian surface at present.
    Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The turning point came in 1964, when a special committee appointed by President John F. Kennedy published a report that laid out an incontrovertible case that smoking was behind not only lung cancer, but a host of other ills.
    Stephen Mihm, Twin Cities, 11 July 2024

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