obfuscate

Google recently detected an even bigger threat in the wild: bot-enabled software that can obfuscate its own code to evade detection and create new malicious capabilities on the fly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025

While Ferguson gets ample time to obfuscate, other, better scholars get little time to squeeze in some truth.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2025

Sometimes, that celebration of energy can obfuscate the real artistic merits of a film, a director’s blinkered vision becoming a death knell.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024

"As soon as you are able to obfuscate the true nature of a URL, that is manna for scammers," he says.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2024

At least Fyrian never attempted to deflect or obfuscate Luna’s many questions.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

That’s how power obfuscates unseemly machinations: by claiming to be doing the opposite.

From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2025

It was a scene rarely seen in Western Washington, which so often obfuscates celestial phenomena with clouds stretching so far into the horizon you wonder if they ever end.

From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2024

Chinese commentators and the public have widely criticized the death toll, saying it obfuscates the real picture and hurts the government’s credibility.

From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2022

“The ‘tech worker’ designation obfuscates a lot of ways that some of our coworkers are already in more precarious situations than others,” Emily Mazo said.

From Slate ● Nov. 17, 2022

It heats the blood, thickens the animal spirits, and obfuscates the cerebrum with frenetical and lymphatic idols, which cloud the quintessential light of the pure reason.

From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Kingsley, Charles

The author now alleges that Euracare has "stalled and muddied and obfuscated" over the inquest and has requested Nigeria's Federal High Court block the inquiry.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

Like most proprietary software, Claude’s source code is usually obfuscated and hard to reverse engineer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

It also provides obfuscated servers, but obfuscation isn’t enabled across the board.

From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2026

Like some previous videos released by the US government, a section of the boat is obfuscated for unspecified reasons.

From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025

They acted slowly and without resolve, they backtracked, they obfuscated, they spoke with a small hesitant voice when what was needed was a howl.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

Alliance sought a contempt order contending that the city was willfully obfuscating to cover up inadequate efforts to live up to its settlement.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026

Robots may threaten ordinary human interactions while obfuscating what it means to be human.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

And if creators can get their subjects to participate only by obfuscating what they intend to do, the end result cannot be totally true.

From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2025

And so they're kind of deliberately obfuscating what the court's order is in order to serve their legal interest in the case.

From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2025

Let us note step by step the chain of what passes in us, without obfuscating our minds by any terms of the schools or any antecedent principle.

From Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire