obfuscate

And sneaky: They didn’t try to steal sensitive data, but spent massive resources in a vain effort to obfuscate logs of their activities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

“All the things I read in the final report did not in any way obfuscate anything, as far as I’m concerned.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2025

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

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

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

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

“The strength in megacap tech has obfuscated what appears to be increasing signs of weakness through much of the real economy,” said Bob Elliott, chief executive at Unlimited funds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 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

Two months in, the rose-colored lenses are especially obfuscating.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

"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

Lawyers for the group contended that the city was obfuscating to cover up its inadequate efforts to comply with its settlement.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026

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