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
The data that are available support an obvious truth about car colors: Americans have homogeneous tastes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
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
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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