obscure

IBM’s near-total dominance of an obscure but important corner of tech hasn’t made it immune to customers redirecting their IT budgets toward memory and storage chips.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

“You take the obscure office of the Treasury to which World Liberty has applied: If they deny the application, you can assume that person will lose their job. It’s obvious on its face.”

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

Which is a better U.S. stock index for your retirement plan: the well-known S&P 500 index of large U.S. companies or the more obscure S&P MidCap 400 index of middle-size companies?

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

That’s definitely one of the reasons why pulling it out seemed obscure when we did “Old School.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

She would at least look interested when he brought him up, instead of glazing over like she did when he spouted off facts about obscure silent films.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

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

The illustrious Smith may make a failure; the obscurer Brown may score a hit.

From By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects by Adams, William Davenport

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 obscurest among us has his place in the Divine plan, his lesson to learn, his work to do.

From John the Baptist by Meyer, F. B. (Frederick Brotherton)

It opens with a strange poem called The Shadow of Night, which Mr. Swinburne is not wrong in classing among the obscurest works in English.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George

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

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026

The result is a metaphysical model that, at best, lacks clarity, and at worst obscures the very nature of reality.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 8, 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

It can be a cloud, a thing that obscures.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi

But levels of fine particulate matter spiked sharply during the main show, leaving people watching from the south with an obscured view as smoke came billowing their way.

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

LH 95 provides scientists with an exceptional opportunity to study stellar birth because it is both relatively nearby and less obscured by dust than similar star forming regions within the Milky Way.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

And the case ever since has been nearly as obscured as the Catalina Foothills after nightfall - beset by everything from tricky terrain to law enforcement infighting.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

Both are hard to measure because investors’ identities — and thus the ability to gauge their intentions — are often obscured by corporate registrations.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

The metal helmet over his chain-mail hood had a nose-piece that obscured the middle of his face, leaving only his eyes visible, a bright blue shade similar to Håkon’s.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

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

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 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

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

When rolling up Vin Scully Avenue, a white smoke hung like a curtain behind the small hills on the other side of outfield walls, obscuring the normally scenic view of the San Gabriel Mountains.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026

This time it pierces the now nearly shredded paper in between the words “audiences” and “spectacle,” obscuring the “with” completely.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern