How to Use self-evident in a Sentence

self-evident

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• But here’s a self-evident truth about the way Biden views the economy.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 30 Oct. 2023
• 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
• The answer to a better way forward may seem self-evident—on the surface.
  — Jay Hakami, Forbes, 1 Mar. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• As the world continues to marvel at his accomplishments, one truth remains self-evident: in the hands of Dr. Hashemloo, art meets science, and facial harmony finds its truest expression.
  — Maria Williams, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2024
• The futility of a separatist manifesto is, for Rustin, too self-evident to underline.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• Any bright college freshman could formulate the queries and provide an appropriate answer to these self-evident data.
  — WSJ, 3 Jan. 2024
• The arrangements that have been assiduously documented by ProPublica over the past week are bad for reasons that are more or less self-evident.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
• Mary’s reasons for granting George opportunities that normally would have gone to his older brother are self-evident.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
• For many Ecuadorians, the ambassador’s indictment was self-evident, though somewhat unwelcome coming from a gringo.
  — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2024
• And the basic appeal is self-evident: an enviable selection of premium cigars, and the premium spirits to match, in comfortably luxe settings that range from Victorian dens to upscale man caves.
  — Richard Carleton Hacker, Robb Report, 13 June 2024
• What was never beaten out of her was an innate sense of liberty—the knowledge, self-evident to her, that God intended for her to be liberated from bondage, spiritually as well as literally.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024