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self-explanatory

[self-ik-splan-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee, self-] / ˈsɛlf ɪkˈsplæn əˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i, ˌsɛlf- /


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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

A mud ball is actually quite self-explanatory - it's when golf balls get covered in mud and dirt during bad weather.

From BBC ● May 16, 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

The manipulation of the appropriate mechanisms should be self-explanatory, and we need not dwell on it here.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker


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