How to Use conclusive in a Sentence

conclusive

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• Most researchers think the science isn't yet conclusive, but Ness doesn't want to wait.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 9 Nov. 2022
• Don’t expect anything conclusive by the end of eight hours.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 July 2022
• Even with thousands of voids, the study’s error bars are still too large to say anything conclusive.
  — Lyndie Chiou, Quanta Magazine, 25 July 2023
• State testing of well water more than a quarter mile from the two Gore sites was less conclusive.
  — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 15 Feb. 2024
• Peskov dismissed the phone call as not being conclusive.
  — Greg Norman, Fox News, 9 Feb. 2023
• In the decades since, there have been rumors and ghost stories but no conclusive evidence about their fate.
  — Longreads, 8 Sep. 2023
• The ending of the comics was pretty conclusive (spoilers follow).
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 31 July 2022
• In a news briefing on Friday, WHO experts said that the data is not conclusive.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 21 Mar. 2023
• Initial Valley fever tests weren't conclusive for Julius Holt, the Marana youth football coach.
  — Stephanie Innes, The Arizona Republic, 29 Apr. 2022
• To what extent these attacks may prove conclusive remains to be seen.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• And there is a lack of conclusive evidence on whether the courts help participants long-term.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 14 Jan. 2024
• Still, their feat isn’t conclusive evidence that the ivory was solely used for rope-making, the team concedes.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
• It was cut from the Viking payload in 1971, deemed too heavy and unlikely to offer conclusive results.
  — Marissa Grunes, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2023
• My findings weren’t conclusive, as the ATS percentage didn’t even reach 52%.
  — Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 16 Dec. 2022
• But the army has yet to provide conclusive proof of a subterranean military base.
  — Karen Zraick, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2023
• The study never claimed to be conclusive, but is a great catalyst for our discussion.
  — The Enquirer, 8 Feb. 2023
• Each gets a specific shout-out in our state laws, and neither mention is conclusive.
  — Detroit Free Press, 12 Aug. 2023
• Some works feel conclusive, while others fail to resolve, but each is an invitation to look on and on.
  — Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Sep. 2023
• The game footage and underlying data on the Packers, though, look conclusive.
  — Derrik Klassen, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2022
• Those who watched the dancing warthog gave a little more to charity and were more likely to give the whole amount, though the results are less conclusive because of a small sample size.
  — Thalia Beaty, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2023
• The research team had planned to enroll more participants, but the early results were conclusive enough to end the study early.
  — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 9 Feb. 2023
• In the case of Abbott, too, no conclusive causation has been proven between the Cronobacter found at the Sturgis plant and infants' illness or death.
  — Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 30 July 2022
• Those facts made robbery an initial theory, but a sweep of the building was conclusive: no snakes were missing.
  — Chris O'Connell, CBS News, 11 Mar. 2022
• Neither has had enough evidence so far to be conclusive.
  — Staff Reports, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2023
• And there are big picture questions left unanswered, as well: Will the lack of a conclusive result encourage other leaks?
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2023
• Ultimately, in the absence of conclusive evidence either way, the fate of the Princes in the Tower remains unknown.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023
• Use of fluoride has been linked to some potential health concerns but studies have not been conclusive about any risks.
  — Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Feb. 2023
• Fed meeting minutes, released last week, also didn’t offer much in the way of conclusive answers.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 11 Jan. 2023
• But that statement was made without the backing of conclusive evidence.
  — Michelle Garcia, CNN, 4 Nov. 2022
• But those two primary lines of thought emerged, without conclusive evidence, one way or the other.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024