obscurely
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Let the officers pore over their digital maps and the soldiers gesticulate obscurely at one another on the field.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
At the time, US officials said Mr Artemov used an expansive network of ships often registered obscurely to transport Iranian oil.
From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2025
The viral meme infiltrating our fraught politics began obscurely on a New Zealand radio show on which the hosts help rationalize absurd, illogical purchases their listeners share with them.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2023
Somewhat obscurely, Aristotle claims that this first cause is “thought thinking itself.”
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
It was when curiosity about Gatsby was at its highest that the lights in his house failed to go on one Saturday night--and, as obscurely as it had begun, his career as Trimalchio was over.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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