self-explanatory
Example Sentences
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“It seems like, ‘OK, that’s a pretty simple contract because it’s pretty self-explanatory where you fall in the ecosystem and the hierarchy.’
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026
Many of the new titles aren’t exactly self-explanatory.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025
The former England international continued: "It's not always self-explanatory, you have to have a little bit of a delve in so you can find out what the stories mean."
From BBC • Mar. 12, 2025
Yet the collapse in Baltimore on Tuesday might have been avoided, some of the engineers said, if the piers were adequately equipped with blocking devices with a self-explanatory name: fenders.
From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2024
Most old text adventure games were pretty self-explanatory, so I’d never actually bothered to read the Zork instruction manual.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
