irrefutable evidence
collocation in Englishmeaningsofirrefutableandevidence
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irrefutable
adjective
uk/ˌɪr.ɪˈfjuː.tə.bəl/us/ˌɪr.əˈfjuː.t̬ə.bəl/
impossible to ...
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evidence
noun[U]
uk/ˈev.ɪ.dəns/us/ˈev.ə.dəns/
one or more reasons for believing that something is or is ...
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It is obviously difficult to provideirrefutableevidencewith which to validate this messy story on all counts.
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This implies that the firm can provideirrefutableevidenceof emission levels to the regulatory agency, if it so chooses.
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Irrefutableevidence, as in the classic case of plate tectonics, can also resolve scientific disagreements, but is usually accompanied by much rancor before one side finally concedes.
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These issues were joined at the time, and judgment has been by theirrefutableevidenceof facts pronounced in our favour.
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Then came the weekend, withirrefutableevidencethat widespread force was being used against civilian targets.
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It might have an effect if there is sound andirrefutableevidencethat that is the case.
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It is difficult to comment on this with theirrefutableevidenceof a fatal accident and a consequent civil conviction.
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However, it was our dissatisfaction with the existing arrangements and our initiative in highlighting what turned out to beirrefutableevidencethat there was disharmony.
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It providesirrefutableevidenceand avoids a situation in which one person says yea and the other nay.
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Is he further aware that every day bringsirrefutableevidencethat the problem of the roads is becoming more and more urgent?
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But he can produce noirrefutableevidencethat 300 people a year die from so-called passive smoking.
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I am afraid that there is a mountain ofirrefutableevidenceagainst them.
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When we place against theirrefutableevidenceof the potential for miscarriages of justice those other matters, the argument is one way.
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But at no stage has he attempted to substantiate his claim to "irrefutableevidence".
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At any rate, no-one has as yet provided me withirrefutableevidenceon either subject.
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If he had hesitated, whenirrefutableevidencewas before him, who knows in what situation the world might have found itself today?
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There isirrefutableevidencethat we are slowing down the rate of inflation which had been unacceptably and devastatingly high.
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I haveirrefutableevidencethat failure to accept the orders will result in just what we do not want—imports.
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There isirrefutableevidencethat if any party is to govern the country sensibly and hold it together there must be a strong manufacturing base.
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I can assure him that the actions were based onirrefutableevidence.
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