self-evident
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The part that so many Americans are taught in school is: “We hold these truths to be self-evident … life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2026
As we observe the 250th anniversary of the document that declared this proposition a self-evident truth, many Americans don’t regard it as true, let alone self-evident.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
But he added: "Rightmove is exploiting a self-evident dominant market position, and are charging too much for it."
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2026
Burden wrote this long after the fact, when the binary nature of her marriage became self-evident.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2026
Even the 2,500-year-old Greek idea of an axiomatic geometry—a few self-evident axioms being assumed, and from them the theorems being derived by logic alone—is not being effectively taught in secondary school.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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