self-evident
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Salon’s Sophia Tesfaye agrees, calling the self-evident desperation “excruciating”:
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
The part that so many Americans are taught in school is: “We hold these truths to be self-evident … life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2026
There’s a key difference between a slave and an AI system: While the basic humanity of the former is self-evident, the claim that the latter might deserve moral consideration is speculative.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
But he added: "Rightmove is exploiting a self-evident dominant market position, and are charging too much for it."
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2026
Throughout the first half of the 1790s, the closest approximation to a self-evident truth in American politics was George Washington.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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