obvious truth
Example Sentences
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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
“The obvious truth is that Diana’s story is one of the most told and retold stories probably in the past 30 years,” Perkins said in an interview this week.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 12, 2022
“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
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
The rumors of the queen’s witchery had been circulating long enough, and the young prince was so beloved of the people, that it took very little for them to see the obvious truth.
From "A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness
