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self-evident

[self-ev-i-duhnt, self-] / ˌsɛlfˈɛv ɪ dənt, ˈsɛlf- /


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But Rodin and Michelangelo, as this exhibition wonderfully reminds us, achieved something perhaps rarer: sculpting bodies whose individual force, presence and meaning is entirely self-evident.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Pause for a moment and think about the very fact of our Constitution, and this no-entrenchment principle becomes self-evident.

From Slate • May 26, 2026

The existential philosophy of Camus and Sartre, self-evident truths for these absurdist writers, is conveyed less through the content than through the style of their plays.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

“Why are we having success in signing up partners? I think it’s self-evident, which is we’ve got demand,” CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said on a conference call.

From Barron's • May 6, 2026

Moral certainty, grounded in probability, had, in the writings of Wilkins and Locke, joined deductive or self-evident knowledge as a form of truth.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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