obscure
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Among the many ironies of all this is that newly rich sports stars and celebrities have the least reason to gamble on obscure get-rich-quick schemes.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
To the general reader, the sentence might seem obscure and may have been so intended.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Users of Meta glasses have figured out ways to obscure components meant to indicate that a photo or video is being captured, including by tampering with the electronics in the device.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
"In that framework, gluons inside a nucleus partially overlap and obscure each other -- similar to layers of clouds blocking sunlight -- reducing the probability of certain particle production processes," he said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 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
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
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
And you may believe me, the obscurer such years are, it is apt to be the better.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by
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
"The obscurest epoch is today," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson.
From Time Magazine Archive
Coetzee calls him "the obscurest of the obscure, so obscure as to be a prodigy."
From Time Magazine Archive
The relations with Napoleon III. form one of the most interesting but obscurest episodes in Bismarck’s career.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
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 Herman Melville
Attributing accountability to artificial intelligence obscures the human decisions that led to these outcomes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 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 his intimidating onyx armor obscures all that, much in the way Darth Vader’s helmet and cloak overcompensate for his shriveled form.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 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
Focusing on the Olmec’s chronological primacy, they believe, obscures the more important fact that Mesoamerica was the home of a remarkable multisociety ferment of social, aesthetic, and technical innovation.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
He wore a dark hoodie cinched around his face and a rubber mask that obscured everything but his eyes.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Within a minute, the report says, dense smoke had obscured the camera.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
It was a silly argument, and it obscured much more consequential developments at the Fed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
“Due to Defendants’ wrongful actions, Demon Hunter’s established identity is becoming increasingly obscured within recorded music, live touring and merchandise-related channels due to overlapping use by the KPop Demon Hunters brand,” the lawsuit states.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
It was only after the French discovered similar paintings, partially obscured by millennia-old mineral deposits, that the Altamira drawings were pronounced authentic.
From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell
The firm has also been accused of obscuring its production processes from the public eye.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 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 the early hours of Saturday, workers hung long plastic sheeting from the structure, obscuring the removal of the letters.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
A moment earlier Fd noticed that wispy clouds now filled the valleys to the south, obscuring all but the highest peaks.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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