How to Use incontrovertible in a Sentence

incontrovertible

adjective
  • By the end of that last disc, those facts are incontrovertible.
    — Randall Robertsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2019
  • What keeps me watching is the incontrovertible fact that these movies are pure soap opera.
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
  • Both the sound and the sense of that sentence were, to me, incontrovertible.
    — Deborah Treisma, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Here was incontrovertible proof of the human spirit, and yet how many of us know of it, or of her?
    — Paula McLain, Town & Country, 12 July 2018
  • This time, at least, the decision was incontrovertible by the letter of the law.
    — Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
  • That is an incontrovertible fact, Mark Barabak writes in his column.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
  • Kennedy has presented incontrovertible data about the state of our health.
    — David Marks, Orlando Sentinel, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Could this telescope find the first incontrovertible evidence of alien life?
    — Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
  • Evidence for the substance’s existence is close to incontrovertible, but no one yet knows what it is made of.
    — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 9 June 2020
  • Today’s country bands don’t play for keeps, but John Prine comes from a place where those things are incontrovertible.
    — Holly Gleason, cleveland, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Experts say this is incontrovertible proof of the vaccines' power.
    — NBC News, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Imagine if a bank were to leave incontrovertible instructions to its tellers on a chalkboard.
    — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 11 July 2019
  • One incontrovertible truism in the car business is that vehicles get bigger with time.
    — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 1 Apr. 2020
  • But as Wragg Sykes says, the incontrovertible fact is that hybrid children were born and raised to survive.
    — Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2021
  • In much of the world, this sentiment would seem incontrovertible, even obvious.
    — Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2025
  • American Idol had a heyday, like few shows ever do, and that’s an incontrovertible fact.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 10 June 2022
  • Quinn is able to obtain incontrovertible evidence and gives the scoop to Marissa rather than keep it for himself.
    — Sopan Deb, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2017
  • The incontrovertible sequence is regrettably still somewhat up in the air.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 June 2021
  • Once this quagmire—in which truth and lies are knotted up and nothing is incontrovertible—is established, the final aim comes into view.
    — Mike Mariani, The Hive, 9 Apr. 2017
  • Once this quagmire—in which truth and lies are knotted up and nothing is incontrovertible—is established, the final aim comes into view.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 28 Mar. 2017
  • Trump seizes on those mistakes as incontrovertible evidence that the media is hopelessly fake.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 9 May 2018
  • This incontrovertible fact lends a sense of urgency and poignancy to firsthand accounts of how survivors managed to endure and to move on.
    — Alissa Simon, Variety, 2 May 2022
  • His frequent victory laps are rarely accompanied by such incontrovertible and public proof of the news being fake.
    — Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The evidence—surveillance-camera footage, bodies of people with their hands tied and gunshot wounds in the back of their heads—seems incontrovertible.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
  • To date, there’s no incontrovertible evidence for water flowing atop the Martian surface at present.
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The feeling of well-being is tangible, and incontrovertible.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Faced with the incontrovertible evidence all around them, even some of the obstructionists are finally coming around.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2021
  • In every other way the owners have already set up Dear Jane’s as the incontrovertible heir apparent.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The facts, the evidence of wrongdoing and law breaking are incontrovertible and overwhelming.
    — Fox News, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Even when LuPone is just shimmying along with the ensemble, her magnetism is as incontrovertible as a natural law.
    — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2022

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