self-evident
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Blame it on Mozart, whose astonishing genius was already self-evident at age 5, when he wrote his first opus , and whose father Leopold controlled his life and career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
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
The Declaration of Independence contains a 300-word self-evident introduction and then an airing of grievances directed toward the “present King of Great Britain” and his “absolute Tyranny over these States.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
Her daughter was always off and away in her mind, grappling with some unspoken, self-imposed problem, as though the weary, self-evident world could be reinvented by a child.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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