smoking gun

Example Sentences

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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

Dark stars have a smoking gun signature, an absorption feature at 1640 Angstrom, due to the large amounts of singly ionized helium in their atmospheres.

From Science Daily