Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- So as not to be contested or disputed; in a manner to preclude debate; indisputably; incontrovertibly; indubitably.
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- adverb In an
incontestable manner.
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Examples
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Radium's discovery marked "incontestably" as Curie claimed, a new epoch for chemists and a kind of chemistry that we might well call "the chemistry of the imponderable."
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No way in hell anyone is that incontestably ignorant!
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For him, "the Holocaust" incontestably occurred and, as such, was an incomparable historical event.
Robert Eisenman: If Menachem Begin Wore Swim Trunks, He Would Never Have Withdrawn from Sinai (and Castro's Recent Comments) Robert Eisenman 2010
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For him, "the Holocaust" incontestably occurred and, as such, was an incomparable historical event.
Robert Eisenman: If Menachem Begin Wore Swim Trunks, He Would Never Have Withdrawn from Sinai (and Castro's Recent Comments) Robert Eisenman 2010
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But be that as it may, there is incontestably a continuity of themes and of vision in your own work.
Ballardian » ‘Le passé composé de J. G. Ballard’: JGB on Empire of the Sun 2009
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The sovereign city-state of Monaco—a country about half the size of New York's Central Park—is incontestably unique.
To Catch a View in Monaco Lanie Goodman 2011
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How far Sure Star has been a success matters because for Labour commentators like Polly Toynbee Sure Start is just about the one incontestably good thing this government has done.
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Religious people find it very annoying that people don't need God to be good, as science has now incontestably proved.
Mark Matousek: Why We Don't Need God to Be Good (and What Religious Folk Don't Want You to Know) Mark Matousek 2011
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[T] he best window we have on what a unitary national policy on race would have been during this era is the way that the federal government of that period addressed racial issues in those policy areas that were incontestably under its control.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Libertarianism, Federalism, and Racism 2010
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Religious people find it very annoying that people don't need God to be good, as science has now incontestably proved.
Mark Matousek: Why We Don't Need God to Be Good (and What Religious Folk Don't Want You to Know) Mark Matousek 2011
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