conclusive

In a sentence

Six example sentences with conclusive, each labelled with its topic.

• The trial produced conclusive results, so the hospital board stopped debating whether the new inhaler helped children breathe.

  Medicine

• Fingerprint evidence on the ledger was conclusive, and the defense dropped every argument it had prepared for trial.

  Law

• Nothing in the blurry negative was conclusive, so the archivists kept arguing about which mountain the climber had photographed.

  Photography

• The second experiment was conclusive, and the rival hypothesis disappeared from the journals within a year.

  Science

• The parish records were conclusive: the two families had lived on the same street a century earlier.

  History

• No conclusive argument for the existence of other minds has ever been offered, yet nobody seriously doubts it.

  Philosophy

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More Academic words

• incoherent
• constrained
• comply
• aesthetic
• implicate
• allocate
• abstraction
• reconstruct
• maximise
• retention
• refine
• qualitative