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conclusive | American Dictionary

conclusive
adjective
us/kənˈklu·sɪv/
(of facts, proof, or arguments) ending any doubt or uncertainty about a situation:
There’s no conclusive evidence that power lines are a health risk.

Examples of conclusive

conclusive
Alternatively, a right to a reasonable standard of conduct has the form of a conclusive right though it is not fully specified.
And excluding simple foreknowledge from the playing field is logically premature, since the cited grounds for this exclusion are far from conclusive.
However, corresponding proportions for one-child families are smaller and less conclusive.
However, there is no need to approach the issue as if one side or the other has the burden of producing conclusive arguments.
The evidence here is not conclusive, but several store owners and employees mentioned that some stores paid for protection.
Both in cosmic environments and astrophysical settings, there is conclusive evidence of magnetic fields.
But sometimes the conclusion of a normative analysis is that there should not be any conclusive answer to the question dealt with.
Instead, in the absence of conclusive arguments, the rational thing to do is to look at the evidence for both sides.
None of the foregoing arguments are anything close to conclusive.
Although evidence from wills cannot be regarded as conclusive, the testamentary arrangements made by her parents are not suggestive of a happy family relationship.
Our findings this time are not conclusive enough, although some data do point in a similar direction.
Based on our findings, perceptual similarity may qualify as a sort of conclusive evidence for two-year-olds that labels do not denote mutually exclusive categories.
In this empirical literature, there are indications (but little conclusive evidence) of an association between the temporal environmental heterogeneity and the amount of genetic variation.
This is hardly as conclusive as he supposes.
The lack of conclusive, summary information may strike one as strange in that readers are not accustomed to "theoretically neutral" expositions of methodology.
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