obscure

Stocks and ETFs promising monthly or even weekly income are proliferating, but frequent payouts can obscure volatility and weak total returns.

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026

The complicated way the statistic is calculated, and relatively small changes from year to year, can obscure the larger improvements in public health over time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

SpaceX’s record-breaking IPO tested the limits of an obscure financial metric.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

A dip on Ridgecrest Road south of Elmwood Drive can obscure vehicles from sight, Dailey said, likening pulling out into the intersection to “playing an old-school Frogger game.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

Too much of it and we obscure the all-pervasive sense of contingency as well as the problematic character of the choices facing the revolutionary generation.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

The two accounts are essentially the same, but the Abrahamic version is so much fuller and clearer that it illumines the obscurer parts of the Mosaic account.

From Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy by John Andreas Widtsoe

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 Girondists were nearly all Atheists, from Condorcet and Madame Roland down to the obscurest victims of the Terror who went gaily to their doom with the hymn of freedom upon their proud lips.

From Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote

Full soon the Aspirant of the plough,       The prompt, the brave, Slept, with the obscurest, in the low       And silent grave.

From Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 by John Campbell Shairp

The next time the Moon obscures as much of the Sun on the British Isles will be in 2081, and the next total solar eclipse in the UK will be in 2090.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

The hagiographic tone of “The Man Will Burn” obscures that.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026

This framing obscures the power imbalance between children seeking care and adults licensed to treat them.

From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2026

During a lunar eclipse, Earth’s shadow obscures the moon; in a solar eclipse event, the moon blocks the sun from view.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 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

“Due to Defendants’ wrongful actions, Demon Hunter’s established identity is becoming increasingly obscured within recorded music, live touring and merchandise-related channels due to overlapping use by the KPop Demon Hunters brand,” the lawsuit states.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

When prices are bundled or obscured, consumers—in this case students—encounter fewer day-to-day reminders of opportunity costs or the economic realities that accompany virtually every decision in ordinary life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Trudy Crielaard, a chemistry teacher who lives near Utrecht in the Netherlands, recalled trying to watch the eclipse in 1999 when clouds obscured the sun’s corona.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

"Even one percent of the Sun that is not obscured is 4,000 times as bright as the full Moon," Paris Observatory astrophysicist Alain Doressoundiram told French media last week.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

She cannot tell how far it stretches, the size of the tent obscured by cascading willows and twisting vines.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

The firm has also been accused of obscuring its production processes from the public eye.

From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026

But for my money, there is too much tedious, mealymouthed chaff obscuring what should be her larger point.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

Now, policies are seemingly directed at obscuring conditions in the for-profit facility operated by The GEO Group.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 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

But then a text from Ben pops up, obscuring half of my screen.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera