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(lb) Truly; in fact; actually.

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*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed , a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.

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*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)

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*:With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed , allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed , contain bacteria,

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Adverb

(en adverb)

In an incontrovertible manner; in a manner not capable of being denied, challenged, or disputed.

* 1810 , Thomas Comber, Adultery Analyzed: an inquiry into the causes of the prevalence of that vice , page 19

It is, incontrovertibly , our duty, if divine and civil laws have given us a rule whereby to regulate our conduct, and which may both promote the benefit of society and the good of the individual, we are obliged to act agreeably to that rule, let the conduct of others be what it may.

* 1917', "State v. Morris", ''The Pacific Reporter'' ' 163 : 584

In such a case and under such proof the intent to kill and the deliberate and premeditated malice are incontrovertibly implied.

* 1957 , William Faulkner, The Town , page

And if word did spread that he had withdrawn his money from the bank in cash, every man and his cousin in the county would be his threat and enemy until every one of them was incontrovertibly convinced that the actual money actually was somewhere else, and exactly where that somewhere else was.