self-evident

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For Americans, King George’s abuses of power in the 1760s and ’70s stirred discontent and outrage, but even then, the choice to break with Britain was not self-evident.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Ignacio Garcia Bercero, a former top EU trade negotiator now with Brussels-based think tank Bruegel, said the deal's advantages were self-evident.

From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026

Today, it seems self-evident to everyone younger than us that, well, of course you would just be obsessive about lunchboxes or about “Battlestar Galactica” or fossils.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2025

While the Cuban government does not publish official figures on the number of people begging, the rise in their number has been self-evident to most Cubans amid the island's deep economic crisis.

From BBC • Jul. 16, 2025

This is so simple a fact that it seems self-evident.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz