obfuscate
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You don’t get to walk into my courtroom, pretend that’s top of mind, then obfuscate when I ask why your office is still running illegally.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026
Blanche also responded to two other files highlighted by Massie, saying those files do not obfuscate any substantive information.
From BBC ● Feb. 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
At least Fyrian never attempted to deflect or obfuscate Luna’s many questions.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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
The rhetoric that a job is a passion obfuscates reality: It is an economic contract, Simone Stolzoff argues.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2023
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
Painting Afghan society with a broad brush only obfuscates the mistakes of those in power.
From Slate ● Feb. 2, 2022
It obscures personal intention, neutralizes discrimination, and obfuscates individual purpose.
From Public Opinion by Lippmann, Walter
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
“Pratt running has kind of obfuscated the differences between Raman and Bass,” Mitchell said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
A Pentagon spokesman obfuscated the choice to the press in the language of a “comprehensive, multilayered process.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
It also provides obfuscated servers, but obfuscation isn’t enabled across the board.
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2026
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
No, their GPS coordinates have been disrupted, obfuscating their true location.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026
Lawyers for the group contend the city is willfully obfuscating to cover up its inadequate efforts to live up to its settlement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 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
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 Norton, Roy
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