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A study was done, but the findings were inconclusive.inconclusive = not conclusive (not putting an end to doubt or question)
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The experiment’s results were inconclusive, so further testing is required.
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...to use the word all is evidently a fallacious mode of speech; for this word is sometimes used distributively, and sometimes collectively, on account of its double meaning, and is the cause of inconclusive syllogisms in reasoning.† (source)
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They did not care to face the strain of some obstinate, inconclusive discussion for fear, maybe, of it ending in a serious quarrel.† (source)
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"Beatrice, your results were inconclusive," she says. (source)
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The treatment protocol was long and elaborate and—worst of all—maddeningly inconclusive. (source)inconclusive = uncertain (not putting an end to doubt or question)
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Gun B had a partial print on it that was inconclusive. (source)inconclusive = not conclusive (not putting an end to doubt or question about whose print it was)
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Can any creator, even a limited one, play a significant game with his own creature? Humanity dealt with this inconclusively with their early Als. (source)inconclusively = in a way that did not put an end to doubt about the answer to the question
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He was the same doctor who was treating Alex, but he couldn't tell her when Alex would wake and said that the CAT scans were inconclusive. (source)inconclusive = not conclusive (not putting an end to doubt or question)
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Kehaar had had a violent quarrel with a kestrel, screaming insults in a voice fit to startle a Cornish harbor: and although it had ended inconclusively, the kestrel seemed likely to regard the neighborhood of the hanger with healthy respect for the future. (source)inconclusively = without a clear winner or loser
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The magazine was folded open to a page on which there was a sketch of a bearded man, the lines rough, inconclusive, as if drawn from an obscure description. (source)inconclusive = uncertain
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So our interview ended inconclusively. (source)inconclusively = without certainty of the outcome
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Half-grown children would come to class from the barricades, smelling of gunpowder, wearing the insignias and uniforms of rebel officers captured at gunpoint in inconclusive battles, and carrying their regulation weapons in full view at their waists. (source)inconclusive = not conclusive (in the sense of showing a clear winner and loser)
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We all conferred that night, but inconclusively.† (source)
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The extent of her injuries made the tests for sexual activity inconclusive. (source)inconclusive = not conclusive (not putting an end to doubt or question)
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He talked thus inconclusively until at last I felt my temper going.† (source)
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