obscure

But that agreement can obscure a much sharper divergence.

From Slate ● Jul. 15, 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

A handful of companies—mainly Alphabet, Amazon and Nvidia—had their operating income boosted in the first quarter by an obscure accounting rule.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

Near the bar, a man with an obscure top passed around a World Cup trophy which barely registered with the kilted Scot and pals, their eyes fixed on the game beaming in from Seattle.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

No homes can be seen from the road; tall scrubby bushes obscure the view.

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

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

This truth seems to be adumbrated in a somewhat obscurer form by those who maintain that men can sin against God's revelation, but not against the eternal decree by which He has ordained all things....

From The Philosophy of Spinoza by Ratner, Joseph

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

But at last he began to feel a distaste for even these; and now nothing but the utter night-desolation of the obscurest warehousing lanes would content him, or be at all sufferable to him.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

As modest in her tastes as the obscurest matron in the land, Victoria fled from the glamor of honors.

From The Branding Needle, or The Monastery of Charolles A Tale of the First Communal Charter by Sue, Eugène

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

And although businesses in the financial, industrial and utilities sectors have also played into that performance, the current trend obscures more subdued results elsewhere and underscores the ongoing performance gap within the index.

From MarketWatch ● May 3, 2026

This framing obscures the power imbalance between children seeking care and adults licensed to treat them.

From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2026

The tool obscures what’s on your screen from the people around you.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026

The fog obscures the early morning joggers and the lone practitioners of tai chi.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

There’s no harm in a bit of rosy romanticization if it makes a life obscured by grief that much lighter.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 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

And then she imagined herself safely installed in the Richardsons’ kingdom, half obscured in the background, keeping watch over her daughter.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

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

In the early hours of Saturday, workers hung long plastic sheeting from the structure, obscuring the removal of the letters.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

Because forward guidance puts the Fed in the position of trying to steer markets rather than observing them, it necessarily risks obscuring important price signals policymakers would benefit from seeing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026

You are able to watch it more closely than you had when you entered, as there is no longer a crowd obscuring it.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern