How to Use self-evident in a Sentence

self-evident

adjective

• 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
• To some moms and dads, the answer is surely self-evident.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 28 Jan. 2025
• 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
• What Biden was intent on describing was quite real, even self-evident by now, but to hear it from a President was startling.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2025
• 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