obscure
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Until recently, Kelvin waves were a pretty obscure concept.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
A long obscure board that oversees L.A.’s federal homelessness funds has published a request for qualifications seeking new applicants for the four federally-mandated functions that make up LAHSA’s core work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
Without a library, I would not have purchased every cookbook, obscure DVD and book about secretive magicians that caught my eye.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
What’s it been like to watch that go from an obscure, unpopular strategy to a dominant force in U.S. investing?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
They help us to peel back some of the layers of legend and hero worship that obscure the whole story of American history.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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
So it happens that the unfortunate consuls who are stowed away in the obscurer establishments, are apt to suffer from their caprice.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various
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
The evidence of a cure is the obscurest thing in the world.
From The Faith Doctor A Story of New York by Edward Eggleston
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
Often, the design’s playfulness obscures the protagonist’s malaise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026
This framing obscures the power imbalance between children seeking care and adults licensed to treat them.
From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2026
A magical force called the Mist obscures the true appearance of monsters and gods from their vision, so mortals tend to see only what they can understand.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
In these stories, the machinery of modern bureaucracy has outrun its original purpose and obscured the humanity of the individual in a pile of papers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The result is that the entire property is obscured from public view to a degree without precedent in recent history, according to Charles Birnbaum, a former National Park Service official.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
“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
"Everything was foggy, you couldn't open the window and it stank," she said, showing a picture on her phone of an orange glow partially obscured by thick smoke clouds that had turned the air black.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
Red’s face was obscured by the shadow of the tire.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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
The detractors were nervous that Gannon was obscuring clearcut evidence that both G42 and the U.A.E. shouldn’t be trusted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Now, policies are seemingly directed at obscuring conditions in the for-profit facility operated by The GEO Group.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
When you walk through them, they fall like snow over the door in the floor, obscuring it from sight.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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