obfuscate

Many of them were shell companies to obfuscate the trail of oil and money.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 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

But the more ridiculous elements of Patel’s activism can obfuscate the fact that he has already been accused of genuinely dangerous activity.

From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2024

Firstly because he had no idea what obfuscate meant.

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

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

Painting Afghan society with a broad brush only obfuscates the mistakes of those in power.

From Slate ● Feb. 2, 2022

Otherwise, Battersby’s by-the-numbers style obfuscates the power of Smith’s inspiring life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 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 Tolstoy, Leo, graf

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

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

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

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

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