obscure

But that agreement can obscure a much sharper divergence.

From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2026

Which is a better U.S. stock index for your retirement plan: the well-known S&P 500 index of large U.S. companies or the more obscure S&P MidCap 400 index of middle-size companies?

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

FIFA’s Disciplinary Committee used an obscure regulation, Article 27, to review sanctions, allowing Balogun to play.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

Near the bar, a man with an obscure top passed around a World Cup trophy which barely registered with the kilted Scot and pals, their eyes fixed on the game beaming in from Seattle.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

I don’t trust Estraven, whose motives are forever obscure; I don’t like him; yet I feel and respond to his authority as surely as I do to the warmth of the sun.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Or as Folger’s artistic director, Janet Griffin, said to me one time, in reference to another of Shakespeare’s obscurer dramas, “Pericles”: “We are looking for what the play is saying to us today.”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2017

I suggested moving to an obscurer table in the rear.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 19, 2010

There he demanded one of the obscurer works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even her obscurer books have something about them that attracts popular attention, for more than most stylists, she writes about the common gist of things.

From Time Magazine Archive

But even among the obscurer races she has managed to bear her part with marked happiness.

From Oriental Women by Pollard, Edward Bagby

Feel grateful we live in a time when the obscurest, niche-iest, weirdest series you love got a chance to exist.

From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2018

"The obscurest epoch is today," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson.

From Time Magazine Archive

Coetzee calls him "the obscurest of the obscure, so obscure as to be a prodigy."

From Time Magazine Archive

The obscurest man in the House of Commons is not more modest; and there is nothing ungenial in his manner or his temper.

From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by McCarthy, Justin

The Fiend once evolved from the obscurest depths of his inner consciousness a truly fearful and alarming plan.

From Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand by Hay, William Delisle

But more than that, it obscures the reality and erases the history of transgender lives by diminishing the significant time, money, and effort many transgender people spend to align their body with their sex.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

The result is a metaphysical model that, at best, lacks clarity, and at worst obscures the very nature of reality.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 8, 2026

And although businesses in the financial, industrial and utilities sectors have also played into that performance, the current trend obscures more subdued results elsewhere and underscores the ongoing performance gap within the index.

From MarketWatch ● May 3, 2026

Often, the design’s playfulness obscures the protagonist’s malaise.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026

In modern translations these words are often represented by the word ‘discovery’, but this obscures the fact that in 1492 ‘discovery’ was not an established concept.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

But levels of fine particulate matter spiked sharply during the main show, leaving people watching from the south with an obscured view as smoke came billowing their way.

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

"The capacity is not absent -- it's just obscured."

From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026

Notably, the set-up has been tweaked since the tour launched in Amsterdam last month, removing some of the 10 foot-high "bridges" that obscured some fans' views.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

There’s no harm in a bit of rosy romanticization if it makes a life obscured by grief that much lighter.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026

For a moment or two I could see nothing, as the shadow of a cloud obscured St. Mary’s Church and all around it.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

In total, more than 1.7 million satellites could soon be lighting up the night sky, obscuring or blotting out the view of ground-based telescopes.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

The results suggest that salt clouds are obscuring deeper layers of the atmosphere and influencing the light that ultimately reaches JWST.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026

In the early hours of Saturday, workers hung long plastic sheeting from the structure, obscuring the removal of the letters.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

“Gray raindrops pattered listlessly on the kitchen window, obscuring the thin morning light” as Honor Wilson is found smearing “a dot of margarine across some toast.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

The obscuring lanes of dust contain organic molecules; some of them contain stars in the earliest stages of formation.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan