In a certain way our theory is so obvious that it appears to us as a “lapalissade”. The cell is a network of phospholipid membranes and one of their chief functions is to keep certain substrates and enzymes apart.
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Lapalissade
//ləˌpælɪˈsɑːd//
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Despite their affection for Gavarni, they dismissed as a lapalissade his oft-repeated statement that science had killed the notion of God
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His display of the virtues Dickens has popularized is a real fraud. Nothing can show that he wants to abide by them. That he only loves himself is a lapalissade.
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