obscurity
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Last year, instead of releasing her first book, called Obscurity, as physical copies in High Street bookstores, or as a Kindle version to download, she started to self-publish chapters as email instalments.
From BBC • Nov. 13, 2022
Obscurity suited Ms. Ingalls, who grew up near Boston, the daughter of a Harvard Sanskrit professor, and found herself drawn to England by the quadricentennial celebrations of Shakespeare’s birth in 1964.
From Washington Post • Mar. 21, 2019
Obscurity is a threat to Wolff no longer.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 4, 2018
Alberini dominated the 54-boat class, finishing first in five of 11 races and beating runner-up Relative Obscurity, owned by Peter Duncan of Rye, New York, by a dozen points.
From Washington Times • Jan. 22, 2016
Obscurity and terror are two of the grand sources of the sublime; analyze the feeling, examine accurately the object which creates the emotion, and you dissipate the illusion, you annihilate the pleasure.
From Practical Education, Volume II by Edgeworth, Maria
Vocabulary lists containing obscurity
The Maze Runner
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Pygmalion
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"The Minister's Black Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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