How to Use self-evident in a Sentence

self-evident

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  • At least, in the fall of 2016, the answer still seemed self-evident.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2024
  • But here’s a self-evident truth about the way Biden views the economy.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Number one is self-evident and yet not how most of us think.
    — Caleb Harris, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Okay, that last one might be a little bit less self-evident.
    — Hazlitt, 27 Mar. 2024
  • That's kind of self-evident because they're supposed to use the money to build fabs.
    — Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg.com, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Wall Street loves gridlock so that’s just a huge win for the market, although that’s not yet self-evident.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 21 July 2024
  • The answer to a better way forward may seem self-evident—on the surface.
    — Jay Hakami, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Now, holding the truth of the talent in our contenders self-evident, have a great holiday and check out some great TV.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 3 July 2024
  • Why that’s a problem should be self-evident after the new reports.
    — The Editors, National Review, 27 Sep. 2023
  • This year, insiders aren’t sure the outcome will be so self-evident.
    — Vulture, 14 July 2023
  • In the worlds le Carré created, truths are rarely self-evident.
    — Ben Rhodes, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2023
  • From the fact that no friend or associate seems to be willing to come on-camera and offer words in his defense, that seems to be self-evident.
    — Ester Bloom, Vulture, 19 Apr. 2024
  • This essay is itself a form of web weaving, composed of threads both self-evident and subsumed.
    — Vivian Lam, WIRED, 24 Feb. 2023
  • When scenes that happen years apart are juxtaposed, the meaning is self-evident.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
  • The truth is, however, that the squalid nature of this transaction was always self-evident.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Back in the day, before anyone worried about fossil fuels, the glory of a brand-new Cadillac was self-evident.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
  • By now, it’s become self-evident that not all viral recipes are created equal.
    — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Early troubles with Callas’s voice, even in the nineteen-fifties, are among the self-evident dramas of her life, but Larraín betrays no interest in this.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
  • At this point, the observation that Joe Biden is for all intents and purposes defunct is not an opinion so much as a self-evident fact.
    — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Pastrami on rye and bagels and lox, to name two canonical pairings of New York cuisine, possess a kind of self-evident logic.
    — Alex Traub, New York Times, 24 May 2023
  • Underscoring the need for reparations, Snowden said the harm to African Americans due to racist policies is self-evident.
    — Brittany Gaddy, ABC News, 12 July 2023
  • The brewing battle over streaming residuals was self-evident, but other issues came as a surprise, such as the demand for a 14% hike in most minimums in year one in the contract.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 21 July 2023
  • On paper, the equation is self-evident: Where investment goes, talent soon follows.
    — Ben Croll, Variety, 8 May 2024
  • For state officials working on the Shattuck project and advocates supporting it, the need for the facility is self-evident.
    — Mike Damiano, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The risks of adopting such a relationship to technology are self-evident.
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The ingenuity of the listening device was self-evident.
    — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
  • To most western Europeans and North Americans, the benefits of neutral public space are self-evident.
    — Melinda Haring, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2019
  • To most people, this observation is self-evident — even banal.
    — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
  • In his view, being the premium choice creates an advantage where value becomes self-evident.
    — USA TODAY, 22 June 2023
  • Though much of the movie’s dialogue was written in the script, Gordon transformed it drastically, and that transformation is self-evident in Dale’s sharp, savvy vocabulary and witty turns of phrase.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2024

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