self-evident
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“The conclusion became self-evident — this Court simply does not have the information the law requires to enter a Temporary Restraining Order at this stage of the proceedings,” McCabria wrote.
From Salon • Mar. 16, 2026
It's self-evident that Lewis Hamilton can only fight for the title if his car and team are up to it.
From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026
For Americans, King George’s abuses of power in the 1760s and ’70s stirred discontent and outrage, but even then, the choice to break with Britain was not self-evident.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
Ignacio Garcia Bercero, a former top EU trade negotiator now with Brussels-based think tank Bruegel, said the deal's advantages were self-evident.
From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026
Moral certainty, grounded in probability, had, in the writings of Wilkins and Locke, joined deductive or self-evident knowledge as a form of truth.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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