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obscure

[uhb-skyoor] / əbˈskjʊər /






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But there are also some more obscure races on the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 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 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

The streamer makes it easy to host a film festival at home, regularly curating new lineups with titles both obscure and populist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

In the farthest balcony, unaccompanied women in masks raised their fans to obscure their pox-marks, observed by men guessing at identity.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

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

In it are comprised many popular fictions, on the obscurer parts of which a quite insufficient light is thrown by researches among the manners and mythologies of old European heathenism.

From Indian Fairy Tales by Anonymous

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

The Rector of Graybridge had chosen one of the obscurest texts in St. Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews for his sermon that morning, and Isabel did not even try to understand him.

From The Doctor's Wife by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Would Gustavus have ceased to be Gustavus had he been doomed to dree an ignoble life in the obscurest nook in Dalecarlia?

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson

There’s a certain philosophy to dressing the body in Japan where the clothing obscures the body.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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

But his intimidating onyx armor obscures all that, much in the way Darth Vader’s helmet and cloak overcompensate for his shriveled form.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 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

The crowd obscures the waterfront, his favorite cafe.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

It’s all obscured by layers upon layers of fact, fiction, perception and question.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 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

It has obscured Singapore's skyline and forced some schools to close in Malaysia.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

The stampede to cut high-end liability has obscured the damage done to the economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

I see the defunct sign dismantled and leaning against the side, almost obscured by overgrown weeds.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

The deals were often named after city streets or U.S. presidents, obscuring who was borrowing the insurers’ money or the quality of those investments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

While most of the players wore the shirts fully, Mbappe, Vinicius and Konate had theirs rolled up to around chest height, obscuring some of the slogan.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 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

A man stepped out of the crowd of torchbearers, his black beard obscuring half his face, his eyes glittering in the torchlight.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo


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