obscure
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But Sung, Bennett and Miller stayed his order, finding that the California deployment could go forward under an obscure and virtually untested subsection of the law.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 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
Synthetic aperture radar sends microwave signals toward Earth's surface, allowing satellites to collect measurements even when clouds obscure the ground.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
She believes the rapid commercial growth of women's football has helped to obscure some of these realities.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
“No one. Just an obscure Indian comic from when I was a kid.”
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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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
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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
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Not always was it quite the same, and thereby the doubter found his denials, when presently a sort of discussion broke out in the obscurer Press.
From Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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
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"The obscurest epoch is today," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The obscurest man in the House of Commons is not more modest; and there is nothing ungenial in his manner or his temper.
From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy
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
Military authorities put effort into messaging that ultimately obscures responsibility and causality, and family members who speak out sometimes fear real repercussions for themselves and loved ones.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 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 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
Now, time is running out on the bird as the rising tide of concrete, scaffolding and rebar obscures Pinky from pedestrian view along the south side of Colorado Boulevard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Behind a patch of sand is a forest of vegetation so thick and so tall that it obscures the inland.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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This year, the calculation has also been impacted by heavy haze, which has obscured satellite images at times.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
"We couldn't see pair density waves in our earlier data because of material impurities that obscured our data," Madhavan said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
Seeing the outfit up close is a reminder of just how little Hopkins needed to work with: Even with virtually his entire body immobilized and much of his face obscured, Lecter somehow became more frightening.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Within a minute, the report says, dense smoke had obscured the camera.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Her vision is obscured completely, she can see nothing and feels only the damp leather against her skin.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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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
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
He stares over my shoulder into the mist obscuring the battlefield.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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