self-explanatory
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Many of the new titles aren’t exactly self-explanatory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
A mud ball is actually quite self-explanatory - it's when golf balls get covered in mud and dirt during bad weather.
From BBC ● May 16, 2025
The title of the special “Lucky” feels self-explanatory given the life that you lead, at least the life people see.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2025
Yet the collapse in Baltimore on Tuesday might have been avoided, some of the engineers said, if the piers were adequately equipped with blocking devices with a self-explanatory name: fenders.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2024
Most old text adventure games were pretty self-explanatory, so I’d never actually bothered to read the Zork instruction manual.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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