obfuscate
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Google recently detected an even bigger threat in the wild: bot-enabled software that can obfuscate its own code to evade detection and create new malicious capabilities on the fly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025
“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
In court documents, Mr Garcia's lawyers accused the US government of trying to "delay, obfuscate and flout court orders, while a man's life and safety is at risk".
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2025
Firstly because he had no idea what obfuscate meant.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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His bad-boy swagger externally obfuscates his heart of gold, but his goodness and morality are apparent.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
That’s how power obfuscates unseemly machinations: by claiming to be doing the opposite.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2025
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
Blockchain advocates are gearing up to fight after the Treasury imposed sanctions last week on Tornado Cash, a crypto “mixer” that obfuscates digital currency trails, and prosecutors in the Netherlands arrested one of its developers.
From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2022
It obscures personal intention, neutralizes discrimination, and obfuscates individual purpose.
From Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann
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
Remember, obfuscated servers are the default with ExpressVPN.
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
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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 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 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 Roy Norton
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