obvious truth
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Journalist Michael Kinsley famously defined a “gaffe” as what happens “when a politician tells the truth—some obvious truth he isn’t supposed to say.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
But the obvious truth is the Marine Corps appears to be doing just fine without a top officer.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2023
The data that are available support an obvious truth about car colors: Americans have homogeneous tastes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
“A gaffe,” he famously wrote, “is when a politician tells the truth — some obvious truth he isn’t supposed to say.”
From New York Times ● May 23, 2022
They charged that Bliss was more concerned about protecting his reputation than admitting the obvious truth: The body of a forty-nine-year-old man in previous good health had been destroyed by infection and starvation.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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