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

Yet those inside the locker room acknowledged a harsh, yet obvious, truth, following the Lakers’ 124-114 loss to Denver.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2024

There’s an obvious truth to Brian Schmetzer’s claim that this isn’t winter 2020.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2022

She’s been beating that drum for so long and the pandemic has driven the obvious truth of that home—literally—in a pretty devastating way.

From Slate • Aug. 20, 2020

Or the obvious truth that her “perfect messenger” got caught just the same as she did.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman