smoking gun

Example Sentences

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But the RBA still needs a smoking gun in the CPI data, with most attention on the trimmed mean core inflation.

From The Wall Street Journal

There is no definitive smoking gun in this lawsuit.

From BBC

With crypto, you rarely need a smoking gun — leverage and narrative do the job.

From MarketWatch

Scott Griffiths of the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences said a "smoking gun research study" was unlikely to emerge soon to prove the harms of social media.

From Barron's

"A clean signal would be a smoking gun, in my opinion," Silk said.

From Science Daily