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obfuscate

[ob-fuh-skeyt, ob-fuhs-keyt] / ˈɒb fəˌskeɪt, ɒbˈfʌs keɪt /


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En route, they had undergone 'layering,' where the funds are split and moved through many digital wallets to obfuscate their paths.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

“I was completely OK with it,” she said, adding that the final report “did not in any way obfuscate anything.”

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 22, 2025

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

From Salon Nov. 1, 2025

In court documents, Mr Garcia's lawyers accused the US government of trying to "delay, obfuscate and flout court orders, while a man's life and safety is at risk".

From BBC Apr. 12, 2025

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

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

His bad-boy swagger externally obfuscates his heart of gold, but his goodness and morality are apparent.

From Los Angeles Times May 29, 2026

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

Footage of desperate Afghans crowding airports, trying to escape, makes the urgency of the situation palpable, but it also obfuscates the logistics of Ghafari’s own exit and the questions of access and privilege it raises.

From New York Times Nov. 16, 2022

But McConnell still has the sense that people might think there is something wrong with being an amoral monster so he obfuscates.

From Salon Apr. 8, 2022

In such a state I was, and I assume many of us are, in respect to the principle of "development" which obfuscates pedagogy, in its connection with the rudiments.

From Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales by Leo Tolstoy, Count

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

Surfshark also supports obfuscated servers under its Camouflage Mode, which helps bypass VPN blocks.

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

"They could be accessing these platforms with VPNs, or obfuscating their ages," Yasmin London, Global Online Safety Expert for Qustodio, said.

From Barron's Aug. 26, 2026

The idea that this has to be weighted down with law-review articles and footnotes and arcana about the history of a three-part test is a way of obfuscating, right?

From Slate Aug. 10, 2026

DiNanno said the Chinese military “sought to conceal testing by obfuscating the nuclear explosions because it recognized these tests violate test ban commitments.”

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 6, 2026

Badenoch said the prime minister was "obfuscating" and that he owed MPs "an explanation".

From BBC Dec. 4, 2024

The art of so obfuscating his expression with words that neither his friends nor his enemies can come to any positive conclusion as to what he means.

From Mixed Faces by Roy Norton




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