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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Inconclusive.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Inconclusive.

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  • adjective nonstandard inconclusive

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Examples

  • I am actually coming to believe that life WILL occur where the chemical & physical conditions are suitable and once that occurs natural selection will heave advances off even though the timescales could be far far greater than we could replicate here, which is why experiments like the famed Miller-Urey one are still unconclusive.

    Will God roll snake eyes? 2008

  • Ive had a rather unconclusive and uncomfortable stomach condition for the past 3 years which by the way is not related to stress which also means it is not an ulcer.

    'If You Read You'll Judge' 2007

  • Did you consider the number of Blacks among Whites when considering such unconclusive agruments?

    White P&G Worker Used Office To Meet Teens For Sex Nathaniel Livingston 2006

  • Ans. The first proposition must be supposed universal, or else the whole will quickly be manifested to be unconclusive.

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

  • After telling me that much Fyne sat helpless in unconclusive agony.

    Chance Joseph Conrad 1890

  • After felling me that much Fyne sat helpless in unconclusive agony.

    Chance A Tale in Two Parts Joseph Conrad 1890

  • But this reasoning is plainly unconclusive; because it supposes, that in our denial of a cause we still grant what we expressly deny, viz. that there must be a cause; which therefore is taken to be the object itself; and that, no doubt, is an evident contradiction.

    A Treatise of Human Nature David Hume 1743

  • But this reasoning is plainly unconclusive; because it supposes, that in our denial of a cause we still grant what we expressly deny, viz. that there must be a cause; which therefore is taken to be the object itself; and that, no doubt, is an evident contradiction.

    A Treatise of Human Nature 1739

  • But this reasoning is plainly unconclusive; because it supposes, that in our denial of a cause we still grant what we expressly deny, viz. that there must be a cause; which therefore is taken to be the object itself; and that, no doubt, is an evident contradiction.

    A treatise of human nature 1739

  • Otx and Emx, two transcription factors involved in anterior patterning of the central nervous system in bilaterians, gave similarly unconclusive results with respect to cnidarian / bilaterian "head" homology

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

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