as in irrefutable
not capable of being challenged or proved wrong
the prosecutor painstakingly built an irrefragable case
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irrefragable
Adjective
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Now, technology has placed this once seemingly irrefutable source of truth under threat.—
Brady Africk,
Time,
27 Oct. 2025 -
An 0-3 record writes its own irrefutable story, and a critical late Tagovailoa interception was its punctuation.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Above all, the film captures the ravages and awe of time, on the actors’ faces and bodies, or on the sun suddenly peaking out above a dawn Mediterranean sea horizon, the real world, manifest in a scene of incontrovertible wonder.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
24 Oct. 2025
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The Senate’s authority to confirm or deny the president’s nominees is incontrovertible.—
James B. Speta,
Twin Cities,
16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Researchers further explain that the discovery of microscopic deformation features in quartz provides conclusive proof that the Jinlin crater was formed by an asteroid impact.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Oct. 2025
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Advertisement What the NFL changed to reduce injuries In recent years, as research about CTE has become more conclusive, some sports leagues have begun to concede that head impacts are a problem.—
Alana Semuels,
Time,
20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Still, the electricity in Ladd’s performance was indisputable, especially that barn-burning lipstick scene.—
Matthew Jacobs,
Vulture,
3 Nov. 2025
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And then there was January 6, an indisputable, if inept, effort to overturn an election.—
John M. Crisp,
Mercury News,
29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Still, at least Geralt has Jaskier, whose incompetence is a regular problem but whose loyalty is unquestionable.—
Scott Meslow,
Vulture,
30 Oct. 2025
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But the triumph is unobjectionable, unquestionable.—
Robert Birsel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Lush greenery in wicker creates a cottage feel Wicker retaining walls add indubitable charm.—
Katherine McLaughlin,
Architectural Digest,
18 Apr. 2025
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The DeSantis announcement is an indubitable win for Musk.—
Scott Nover,
Quartz,
24 May 2023
Adjective
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That is to say, there is no one pure ur-movie, unblemished and incontestable.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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Despite the discouraging tendency these days to see everything through a political prism, the science itself is incontestable and apolitical: Climate change is caused by human activity, primarily the use fossil fuels, like coal, oil and gas.—
Caitlin Looby,
jsonline.com,
24 July 2025
Adjective
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Visions of the Western United States —its woods and landscapes— both entice and haunt Grainier throughout his life, evoking unanswerable beauty and heartbreak that circle around and around the logger and railroad worker, nonlinearly over the course of the film.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
30 Oct. 2025
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That question is unanswerable until after this season — Watson’s fourth in the league.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
26 Oct. 2025
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“Irrefragable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irrefragable. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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