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This type of logic, which determines the law of the land by interpreting obscure bits of history over utilizing common sense, is what Gladwell calls “bananas.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

The stock market will face stiff headwinds over the next 12 months, according to an obscure indicator with an enviable track record.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

The extra lunar light, however, may obscure some of the meteors, so be patient and leave time for your eyes to adjust.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

The United States and allies warned in July that North Korean workers were using AI tools to further obscure their true identities.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

Now, under Nugent, its activities were devoted to frustrating the work of the religious authorities, and to remaining obscure and apparently harmless.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Epilepsy, in certain of its obscurer forms, is responsible for many conditions in which there is a sudden access of insane excitement of a violent, often very impulsive, character, though sometimes of very short duration.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

You have gone straight to the heart of this mystery, and have thrown light into its obscurest corner, as a dozen flaming torches would have illumined that dark laboratory in the Monastery.

From A Prince of Good Fellows by Robert Barr

Fancy our Prime Minister pouncing oppressively and illegally upon the very obscurest provincial paper going—say the "Land's End Farthing Illuminator!"

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various

The generic disclaimer that the ad was paid for by the federal government obscures which agency might be responsible, Kappel said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

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

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

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

Scientists suspect that the incomplete geographic distribution of ancient fossils has obscured important details about when and where this group first emerged.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026

She added that the scaffolding meant she sometimes had to keep the lights on during the day, particularly in her son's bedroom which is obscured by a metal guard.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

That’s what happens when a subject is obscured by layers of semi-permeable barriers of their own making: Eventually, the image distorts.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

Gray regularly mines his commercial archive for images of entertainers, though he frequently presents them with their faces obscured, as a stand-in for larger ideas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Once, he fell; clouds of dust obscured everything, and he ran from the dust—he hurried faster, sliding and tumbling on the loose pebbles.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

In such an environment, making firm-level ROI the primary measure of success is misguided; worse, it risks obscuring why firms must invest in AI at all.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

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

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

However, those same cold traps could also collect organic compounds released by visiting spacecraft, potentially obscuring the pristine material scientists hope to study.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026

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

A lorry went past, making our car wobble and, for a few seconds, obscuring our view of the hoarding.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro