as in incontrovertible
not capable of being challenged or proved wrong
the irrefutable reply of "Because I like it!"
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Recent Examples of irrefutable
In the exhibition, surrounded by 100 of them, hung on white cloth in a grid, the horror of the conflict is irrefutable.
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Harrison Jacobs,
ARTnews.com,
12 May 2026
Her 10-episode first season isn’t just an allegory for learning to accept and conquer life’s inescapable anxieties; its horrors are irrefutable for everyone onscreen, which makes for a cathartic, curious, and chilling experience for everyone watching at home.
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Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
29 Apr. 2026
There is irrefutable evidence that reining in out-of-control litigation costs by cracking down on fraud benefits taxpayers.
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Ike Brannon,
New York Daily News,
19 Apr. 2026
The bottom of the play-in round is its own irrefutable verdict.
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Miami Herald,
15 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for irrefutable
Harrison Jacobs,
ARTnews.com,
12 May 2026
Her 10-episode first season isn’t just an allegory for learning to accept and conquer life’s inescapable anxieties; its horrors are irrefutable for everyone onscreen, which makes for a cathartic, curious, and chilling experience for everyone watching at home.
—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
29 Apr. 2026
There is irrefutable evidence that reining in out-of-control litigation costs by cracking down on fraud benefits taxpayers.
—
Ike Brannon,
New York Daily News,
19 Apr. 2026
The bottom of the play-in round is its own irrefutable verdict.
—
Miami Herald,
15 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for irrefutable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for irrefutable
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By slow degrees, Philip’s story shifts to accommodate the incontrovertible evidence of IP addresses and deciphered cryptography and Lucy struggles to keep up, let alone understand.
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What is incontrovertible, however, is how indispensable Guimaraes is for Howe and Newcastle.
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Indeed, Brian has created hundreds of billions in value for his shareholders and his legacy as one of the greatest business builders and dealmakers of our time is indisputable.
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While a snafu at the 2016 Oscars saw Moonlight achieve a very different kind of notoriety, the film remains widely regarded as the year’s indisputable best picture.
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Even now at more than 50 years old, there is something undeniable about the movie’s ability to entertain, delight and terrify an audience.
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After realizing their undeniable chemistry, the two quickly turned from friends to lovers.
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That kind of research is less conclusive than clinical trials that follow subjects over time to create new and theoretically more reliable data that can do more to prove cause and effect.
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But, again, is acting out of expediency and the desire to streamline a conclusive end the same as delivering a final season representing the best of The Bear?
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That must be the unquestionable goal for next season.
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Nonetheless, its power is unquestionable.
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Funnyman, vulgarian, auteur — Mel Brooks’s imprint on American cinema is incontestable yet scandalously undervalued.
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The mark was federally registered in 2015 and has since achieved incontestable status, a legal designation that strengthens ownership rights.
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Yet despite these unarguable facts, the direction of the animation world lately has been decidedly pro-Shrek and anti–French rat.
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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.
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As a result, mathematical truths do not make up a unified whole of equally indubitable truths; instead, their status as knowledge varies gradually from doubtless facts to increasingly uncertain hypotheses.
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The second route, and the route that makes indubitable sense, entails using the techniques and methods of psychology to gauge the performance of AI.
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“Irrefutable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irrefutable. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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