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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Closed to debate or further discussion.
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- adjective Not
debatable ; that cannot bedebated .
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Examples
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Take, for example, "Lie on the table:" the Table shows that § 19 of the Pocket Manual treats of this motion; that it is "undebatable" and "cannot be amended;" and that an affirmative vote on it (as shown in note 3) "cannot be reconsidered:"
Robert's Rules of Order Pocket Manual of Rules of Order for Deliberative Assemblies Henry M. Robert 1880
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Having read the paper, I feel its thesis is unverifiable in any remotely experimental situation, includes no figures I can compare and verify, its terminology is obscure and unclear, making it utterly undebatable.
Juntas vs. Open Societies, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I mean no disrespect to all the dedicated people who are the "experts" in education policy, but for me the problem and its root causes still seem as undebatable as the practice of paying that guy to sleep for three or four years.
John Merrow: Steven Brill And The Berated Dog John Merrow 2011
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Some of her influences she has acknowledged openly, and a few are so obvious as to be undebatable.
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At any rate, and undebatable, the last of the three to attain awareness was Lee
THE KANAKA SURF 2010
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I mean no disrespect to all the dedicated people who are the "experts" in education policy, but for me the problem and its root causes still seem as undebatable as the practice of paying that guy to sleep for three or four years.
John Merrow: Steven Brill And The Berated Dog John Merrow 2011
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Not to be confused with the True Believers for whom each occasional “record high” in some random location was an undebatable indicator of AGW.
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My work is by no means all-encompassing; my aim is to provoke a debate on a sacrosanct subject that has remained undebatable for far too long.
Joseph Smigelski: Out of Infamy : An Important Film at a Crucial Time 2010
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Each of these words is found many times in other inscriptions and so their combined translation is undebatable as 'which is forth'.
Ipa ama hen 2010
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And in any case, the two undebatable points are that moveon. org was formed to protect the Clintons, and that moveon. org was never against the war in Afghanistan - that was a fabrication of Mr. Rove's.
Audio: Hillary Privately Blasted "The Activist Base Of The Democratic Party" For Caucus Defeats 2009
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