inconclusive

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Recent Examples of inconclusive In November 2014 — Hodge was out of prison by then — the results came back: inconclusive. Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2025 Muller was considered a suspect early on, but DNA analysis was inconclusive. Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2025 And the genetic results confirmed that the skull and femur samples were from the same individual, although the results for the rib were inconclusive. Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 Jan. 2025 Barnier was appointed in September by President Emmanuel Macron after an inconclusive July parliamentary election. Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for inconclusive 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inconclusive
Adjective
  • The lack of clear details in recent warnings, along with several erroneous alerts, have led some residents to take the messages less seriously.
    Holly Yan, CNN, 16 Jan. 2025
  • There is also a question whether the IRS has authority to assert penalties on refund claims of employment taxes as the statute that normally allows the IRS to assert penalties on erroneous claims for refund only applies to income taxes.
    Tom Cullinan, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • River ice may also cause gauge observations to be inaccurate.
    Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
  • While conservatives are more likely to spread information that fact-checkers deem inaccurate, there's no available data to substantiate the allegation that conservatives are unfairly targeted by fact-checkers.
    Lisa Hagen, NPR, 24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Hassan quizzed him on different aspects of Medicare and his answers were incorrect.
    Will Stone, NPR, 30 Jan. 2025
  • But Patel's information was incorrect: the Nigerians had not given their approval.
    Daniel Klaidman, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The Chiefs are the least flawed of the four remaining teams, and whoever comes out of the AFC should win the Super Bowl.
    Hannah Vanbiber, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Structural balance frameworks aim to stabilize budgets over the economic cycle but often fail due to their flawed design.
    Vance Ginn, National Review, 24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • But Vučević is regressing rapidly to the mean at the absolute wrong stretch, plummeting below 27% shooting behind the arc in January.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Not that there’s anything wrong with people there, but no one should have that much knowledge about what people think about you.
    Ian Cohen, Pitchfork, 30 Jan. 2025

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“Inconclusive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inconclusive. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.

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