obvious
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That raised an obvious question: Why do North American crayfish appear to stop growing at around this size when some species elsewhere in the world, including the Tasmanian giant freshwater crayfish, can become dramatically larger?
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
To his eye, the telltale errors of off-the-shelf A.I. translation tools were obvious.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
"It was obvious that they suffer enduring pain for what you did to them," he told Petrie.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
“It’s not an obvious yes or no,” he said at the time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
She’s sitting next to me, like normal, and we aren’t ignoring each other or anything as obvious as that.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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