smoking gun
Example Sentences
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But they were, with remarkable frequency, also a smoking gun.
From Slate • Feb. 18, 2026
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 • Jan. 23, 2026
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 • Dec. 1, 2025
"A clean signal would be a smoking gun, in my opinion," Silk said.
From Science Daily • Oct. 18, 2025
The tape of Nixon and his staff plotting to use the CIA to block the FBI’s investigation of the Watergate break-in proved to be the smoking gun prosecutors were looking for.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
