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Recent Examples of self-evident What seems self-evident to you may, in fact, be considered inventive. Paul Moutzouris, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025 The matter of where to reach them — online — is self-evident. Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025 As naive as that may sound in a world where so many self-evident rights and wrongs are being routinely, dishonestly evaluated and reevaluated, the series elevates simple truths in ways that are downright inspirational. Ben Travers, IndieWire, 4 Aug. 2025 As with many psychological concepts, the importance of mattering sounds self-evident, which Flett suspects is why it’s been neglected as a field of study. Leslie Jamison, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for self-evident
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Adjective
  • The triggers for a crash likewise do not generally follow any obvious logic.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Roem and other critics of data center growth see a few obvious goals in Virginia if Spanberger wins — though the would-be governor has not climbed on board with all of them.
    David Weigel, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Whether this knowledge is acquired through data collection and analysis, by physical experimentation, or using mathematical analysis based on axiomatic principles, the result is new understandings and insights.
    Sheldon H. Jacobson, Twin Cities, 10 July 2025
  • Anyone who wants to prove all the possible statements in the mathematical universe will be forced to keep creating new axiomatic systems forever.
    Gregory Barber, Quanta Magazine, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • Jackson's absence was evident in the Ravens' 44-10 loss in Week 5 to the Houston Texans.
    Reice Shipley, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • On Thursday, Samberg’s absence was the most evident of the three.
    Murat Ates, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • In an apparent thawing of political tensions, however, Chinese tech giant Alibaba on Thursday announced a multi-year partnership with the NBA to provide artificial intelligence and cloud services in China.
    Sam Meredith, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The brightness Pettit observed is one of the worries, as these Starlink trains — usually most apparent shortly after launch aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket — can interfere with astronomical observations.
    Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The various lineages of Ursuța’s work are unmistakable.
    Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
  • While the murderous struggle is hard to hear in the video, the barking continued for several minutes and is unmistakable.
    Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2025

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“Self-evident.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-evident. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.

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