as in unquestionable
not capable of being challenged or proved wrong
the contention that there are certain unchallengeable rules governing proper grammar
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Recent Examples of unchallengeable
Regular board and executive succession planning, with a balance of independent directors, can ensure the right questions are asked and no single person becomes unchallengeable.
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James Henderson, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
Unlike Biden, Trump’s intraparty position is nearly unchallengeable.
—The Editors, National Review, 3 July 2024
In the heady days after the Cold War, the order appeared both unchallenged and unchallengeable.
—Ivo Daalder, Foreign Affairs, 21 June 2022
No longer having to play cosmetic chemist is an unchallengeable win.
—Essence, 23 Oct. 2023
Alternatively, maybe journalists and, later, historians, felt that to focus on the unsolved mystery of the break-in would somehow diminish the unchallengeable fact of Nixon’s guilt in the cover-up and various other scandals unearthed in the Watergate investigations and after.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 17 June 2022
This was rooted in a calculation that America’s greatest source of strength was global perceptions of the country as unchallengeable.
—Max Fisher, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2023
However, authoritarian leaders like Vladimir Putin and Mohammed bin Salman are both extremely personally wealthy in ways that are harder to calculate and also have unchallengeable access to the vast wealth of their nations.
—Sean O'Kane, The Verge, 7 Jan. 2021
Smith was daily saving the honor of the unchallengeable ruler: Big Brother.
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 2 June 2021
James Henderson, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
Unlike Biden, Trump’s intraparty position is nearly unchallengeable.
—The Editors, National Review, 3 July 2024
In the heady days after the Cold War, the order appeared both unchallenged and unchallengeable.
—Ivo Daalder, Foreign Affairs, 21 June 2022
No longer having to play cosmetic chemist is an unchallengeable win.
—Essence, 23 Oct. 2023
Alternatively, maybe journalists and, later, historians, felt that to focus on the unsolved mystery of the break-in would somehow diminish the unchallengeable fact of Nixon’s guilt in the cover-up and various other scandals unearthed in the Watergate investigations and after.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 17 June 2022
This was rooted in a calculation that America’s greatest source of strength was global perceptions of the country as unchallengeable.
—Max Fisher, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2023
However, authoritarian leaders like Vladimir Putin and Mohammed bin Salman are both extremely personally wealthy in ways that are harder to calculate and also have unchallengeable access to the vast wealth of their nations.
—Sean O'Kane, The Verge, 7 Jan. 2021
Smith was daily saving the honor of the unchallengeable ruler: Big Brother.
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 2 June 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unchallengeable
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With a career spanning 19 full-time seasons and 34 series victories, including a 2017 championship, Truex Jr's success in NASCAR is unquestionable.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
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Modern football has brought many unquestionable improvements.—
Simon Hughes,
The Athletic,
20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Hence, the population loss was bandied about Red America as irrefutable evidence of the blue state’s social collapse, its moral rot and the failings of its left-leaning political leadership.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
The Mercury News,
21 Jan. 2025
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That seems like an obvious assertion and nearly irrefutable.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Two high-profile celebrity marriages and plenty of box office hits later, Moore's place in Hollywood's firmament is indisputable.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA TODAY,
23 Jan. 2025
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Legal precedents and constitutional protections make Harris' eligibility for the presidency indisputable, despite misinformation circulating on social media.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
21 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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But the personal drama between them was incontestable.—
Mikal Gilmore,
Rolling Stone,
17 Jan. 2025
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But for me, the main question isn’t necessarily the badness of the situation, which is incontestable.—
Sean Illing,
Vox,
15 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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This absence of alarm is not conclusive proof that democracy is safe forever, nor that Trump cannot damage American democracy at all.—
Victor Menaldo,
The Conversation,
16 Jan. 2025
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While no conclusive evidence connects the dye to cancer in humans, its potential risks have led to bans or severe restrictions in several countries, including the European Union, Australia and Japan.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Shareholder activism often comes down to making an incontrovertible argument.—
Kenneth Squire,
CNBC,
21 Dec. 2024
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Their denials could easily be dismissed because the evidence seems incontrovertible—after all, seeing has always been believing.—
Amy Zegart,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Apr. 2019
Adjective
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From this time on, the central animating concerns of his practice were the unanswerable existential questions and their moral implications.—
David A. Ross,
Artforum,
1 Jan. 2025
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His interests were wide, but his grand theme was the problem of Paul: of young men whose violent deaths raised unanswerable questions.—
Kathryn Schulz,
The New Yorker,
1 July 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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