Example Sentences

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“This pattern of highly visible and self-evidently significant innovations leading to market euphoria, then to overinvestment, and thus to severe market decline has repeated again and again throughout history,” he said.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

Fuel-efficiency gains are self-evidently obtainable, driven by technology and market demand.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

This was self-evidently dumb, and not just because of the obsessive relitigation of a pandemic that ended when all these sorority girls were barely out of junior high.

From Salon • Aug. 22, 2025

And it’s easy to see how a bright, cheeky mainstream crowd-pleaser like “Barbie” might have had built-in biases to overcome that a self-evidently serious-minded drama like “Anatomy of a Fall” clearly didn’t.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2024

Thanks to radioactivity the Earth could be–and self-evidently was–much older than the twenty-four million years Kelvin’s calculations allowed.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson