obscure
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Four months later, an obscure Texas startup called America First Refining announced that it had received a nine-figure investment from the Ambanis’ company.
From Salon • Jun. 11, 2026
But while VPNs do all of that, they don’t fully obscure your online footprint, and they don’t make you invincible.
From Salon • Jun. 10, 2026
She hurried back as the fires broke containment, but her absence, which her social media posts seemed to obscure, became the symbol of a disorganized response to the disaster.
From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026
But in its tidy fashion the series provides a free-flowing river of often obscure historical fact, and a story we Americans can embrace, if we so choose.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
“It means that I, Miss Penelope Lumley, am the singular person whom the author of this volume hopes to lure to that obscure and little-trafficked Gallery Seventeen.”
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
Vocabulary lists containing obscure
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