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Recent Examples of self-evident However, as already self-evident at the time, a fleet of these attack planes alone would do little to reassure America’s Arab allies in the Persian Gulf or deter Iran. Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025 But most of the records had long been available; the big difference here is that some of the (mostly self-evident) names and sources are revealed. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025 In the self-evident truth that all people are created equal, all means all. Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2025 In the self-evident truth that 'all people are created equal,' all means all. Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 18 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for self-evident
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Adjective
  • With such a depleted draft stash, the Bucks don't have any obvious levers to pull to help bolster their supporting cast alongside Antetokounmpo and Lillard.
    Bryan Toporek, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Hague lamented the rush to reach a deal in the absence of any obvious pressure on Russia but with an intense focus on obtaining for the U.S. the mineral wealth of Ukraine.
    Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Macías was believed by Spain to be so weak and ineffectual that future economic benefits for Spain, even after independence, would be axiomatic.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 18 Apr. 2025
  • It’s been axiomatic from time to time, for decades now, that the United States is in decline, and that somebody else—most recently, China—is the ascendant power.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Regardless of the threat, its evident that our surface area of exposure increases as AI adoption scales and trust, will become the new currency of AI adoption.
    Sol Rashidi, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Nowhere was this more evident than at Stanford, where federal defense contracts and research funding supported a culture of innovation that helped create Silicon Valley.
    Sarah Kreps, Foreign Affairs, 29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The state Department of Environmental Conservation and the city DEP both cited the MTA earlier this month when an apparent overflow in the depot’s sewage ejection pit ran off into nearby storm drains, spilling what DEC inspectors estimated to be 50 gallons of waste into the bay.
    Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2025
  • What could draw such large predators to an apparent oceanic desert?
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
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  • She’s been wildly influential without ever being less than unmistakable; no matter what sonic, thematic or characteristic elements other artists may borrow from her, none of them would ever risk being taken for Lana herself.
    Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 26 Apr. 2025
  • The song, a collaboration between The Pogues frontman MacGowan and the unmistakable O’Connor, reenters the Official Physical Singles chart at No. 18.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025

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“Self-evident.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-evident. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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